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Mar. 13th, 2009 11:47 pmThe more and more I learn about sociolinguistics and historical linguistics, the more and more I am convinced that there is no fucking way that Modern English would still be spoken in the 51st century. Especially when you're looking at reams and reams of data on how the speech of a city can change over fifty years.
At the very least, it would sound as different as Middle English sounds to us. I don't think it would quite reach the Proto-Indo-European level of different because witting would act as some sort of a drag, but who knows?
P.S. My Futuristic/Alien Language now has a typological system AND an orthography! I choice VSO, because it's not the most common ( SOV ) or the one English has ( SVO ). VSO word order is, coincidently, is shared by Welsh, Arabic, and Hawaiian. It shows up in around 20% of the worlds languages. And I chose a syllabray, as apparently alphabets have only been invented independently a handful of times.
At the very least, it would sound as different as Middle English sounds to us. I don't think it would quite reach the Proto-Indo-European level of different because witting would act as some sort of a drag, but who knows?
P.S. My Futuristic/Alien Language now has a typological system AND an orthography! I choice VSO, because it's not the most common ( SOV ) or the one English has ( SVO ). VSO word order is, coincidently, is shared by Welsh, Arabic, and Hawaiian. It shows up in around 20% of the worlds languages. And I chose a syllabray, as apparently alphabets have only been invented independently a handful of times.
