How do you think the English language will be in 10 year´s time?

Answer 1

I completely disagree with cosaxteacher. One of the things that strikes me when I read papers from about 30 years ago is how much English has changed.

There will be new vocabulary words, of course. In addition, we can expect some changes in pronunciation (pronunciation always changes over time). I don't know whether there will be any major changes in grammar, but perhaps some grammatical features that are restricted to certain areas now will become more widespread.

Answer 2

At the rate the English language is absorbing slang, made-up words and foreign influences, I would imagine the next 10 years to show a relatively dramatic change. However, a language will never change faster than the population can keep up with it, as those changes are caused by the whims of the population.

Answer 3

The English Language has a tradition of diversity! If you read the original works of William Shakespare and know the period of his writtings then you will discover that he used many expressions, words and slang that were indicative of the class, culture or region the actor represented.

Many so-called Scholars even today are not aware that diverse spellings found in manuscripts from the 16 to 1800s are not always the consequence of non-comparative education but often reflect regional ideas and cultural & aesthetic and other discretions, which were one the peragative of Clerkes and Writting Masters! Even the contractions used by Writting Masters in their haydays were reflrctive of stylistic speach!

Ten years from now or a hundred years from now English will still seem uniquely english!

Answer 4

It will continue to become homoginized. This is due to television. Regional dialects are becoming more scarce.

I recently moved to Boston, and have noticed that most of the younger generation pronounce the "R" the way the rest of the country does.

I lived for a couple of years in the South, and found that a lot of the younger people do not have traditional Southern Accents -- but sound like people elsewhere in the US.

TV is changing our language.

Answer 5

In 7 years the grammarians are going to stage a coup, because everybody says things like "anyways" instead of "anyway" and such nonsense, and they will rule the world, imposing firm control over AIM, text messaging, and emailing. Typos will incur 5-10 year jail penalties. Repeated offenders will be executed. By 10 years, an underground network of slang-talking gangsters will attempt to overthrow this government, but they will be side-winded by the government's new coup-process, which will require extensive paperwork written in flawless English before such a coup is allowed and encouraged.
Damn the grammarians.

Answer 6

I don't think it will evolve much if at all, unless we started or discovered life on another planet and a lifeform we can interact with which we would need to learn another form of language and possibly intergrate it with our English within this time frame.

Answer 7

English becomes much more simple because people from all around the world learn it but usually not hard enough - you can't hear normal speech in the streets no more. Everyone does as he can, we try not to use difficult words for others to understand us... That's awful

Answer 8

There's the core and there's the slang. Slang is nothing new and all differents races and languages have it. English language will be about the same and new slang.

Answer 9

i think English would be definitely hard for us to understand
because before,100 years ago the used to speak in the Shakespeare language...

Answer 10

I think that leet/IM words will be more commonly accepted, and that people will drop the apostrophe from contractions. Formal written English won't change much, but the words spoken by the average person will.