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“Predicting the future of the English language is rather easy, in
the short term.  The odds are, over the next few decades its
New World dialects are going to gain increasing global dominance,
accelerating the demise of thousands of less fortunate languages but
at long last allowing a single advertisement to reach everybody in
the world.  Then after a century or two of US dominance some
other geopolitical grouping will gain the ascendancy, everyone will
learn Chechen or Patagonian or whatever it is, and history will
continue as usual.  Ho hum.  But apart from that...
what might the language actually look like in a thousand years
time?  For comparison, the English spoken at the turn of the
last millennium looked like this:” source...