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What Language will we speak?

What language will we speak in 125 years?

  • Chinese

    Votes: 2 6.5%

  • Spanish, central american

    Votes: 1 3.2%

  • Hindi

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • English ( We will never give in!)

    Votes: 19 61.3%

  • Japanese

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • African American Vernacular English

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • the average american will know 4-5 languages

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Gaelic (We all come to our senses and realize that this is the best language)

    Votes: 5 16.1%

  • Arabic

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • other (state and give reason)

    Votes: 4 12.9%
  • Total voters
    31
ludahai said:
-- The language used in commerce between those countries is more often English than any other. Even in this part of the world, more countries use English as an official language than any other language. Most commerce between countries within this region is also done in English, not Chinese, not Japanese, not Hindi, not Indonesian... nothing is going to change this anytime in the foreseeable future...
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Agreed, English "English" will simply continue to grow as the language of international business. This will continue to annoy the heck out of the French who always wanted French to be the dominant language of the world.

I sat on a train 4 weeks ago next to a German industrialist speaking to his Italian prospective market and learned a heck of a lot about the german guy's company, assets and portfolio.
 
Whovian said:
A mix of English and Chinese... just like on Firefly.
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Go tsao de bastard I was going to make the Firefly reference!

(oh god does it count as bypassing the profanity filter if it's in Chinese? :D )
 
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Fiddytree said:
Latin.

My prediction is sound.
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We already do.
A good portion of English is based on Latin, the rest on old German.
No question, a man from today would be unable to comprehend 22nd century "English"....
A millennium from now, there may be but one language.
Chinese(written) seems to be far too complex and far too easy to misintreprit.....same with the other "non-alphabet" languages.
 
earthworm said:
We already do.
A good portion of English is based on Latin, the rest on old German.
No question, a man from today would be unable to comprehend 22nd century "English"....A millennium from now, there may be but one language.
Chinese(written) seems to be far too complex and far too easy to misintreprit.....same with the other "non-alphabet" languages.
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I don't think English will change so much in 100 years. In fact, with the development of printing being widespread, it seems the change of the English language has been much slower. Heck, most of us can read Shakespearian/Elizabethan English from four hundred years ago, but the difference between the English of that era and the English of Chaucer is vast indeed...

Frankly, if we met someone from 100 years ago, I think most of us would have little difficulty commuicating with him/her...
 
Akkadian.

It always amuses me when people assume the world will still exist after the end of the "day of Brahma".
 
Unintelligible grunts punctuated by complex electronic pictograms.
 
The way Americans so easily switched to the metric system in the 70s offers an indication of how easily we could all just switch to Chinese.
 
sazerac said:
The way Americans so easily switched to the metric system in the 70s offers an indication of how easily we could all just switch to Chinese.
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Drug dealers switched, I don't see what everyone else's hang up is. :lol:
 
American English is very willing to borrow words from other languages. And when it does, it's still English.
 
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