What will happend with the English language in the future?

Question

The languages chance with the time, sometimes becoming in a new diferent language.
The english that are spoken in USA is the same in England, Ireland, Scotland, Australia, Canada etc, Yeah their have diferrences about the slang, but are still the same languace...for now.
What do you think would will happend with the english language in the future? the differences about the slang could become bigger? Some day the englsih in USA could be different from the english in England or Australia, to be 3 different languages in the future?
Could will the english become in different languages like happend with the Latin from the ancient Rome (The latin was the language of the empire, it becoming in a different languages with the time as the italian, french, spanish, portuguese, etc) ?
what do you think about that??

the english is not my firts language, sorry for my poor english, but i want your opinion about your own language

Answer 1

English on all sides of the world will continue to change and evolve because that is what all languages do. Typically, it takes about 500 years for two dialects to evolve into what linguists would classify as two different languages. Scots and English have been separated for about 700 years, and the differences between Scots (NOT Gaelic, but Lallans) and English are much more profound than the differences between American or Australian English and British English. American English has another couple hundred years to go to be as different from British English as Scots is. This language change has NOTHING whatsoever to do with education, as previous posters have cried about. It is constantly happening in all languages. Eventually, English will wind up being like "Arabic". There are at least half a dozen different languages that are "Arabic", and children learn them as their native languages. But as they watch television and hear the Koran and go to school, they learn a second language--Modern Standard Arabic, which is no one's native language. Eventually, in a couple hundred years, English speakers from different sides of the globe will have to switch to speaking "Modern Standard English" in order to talk to one another. It will be no one's native language, but all English speakers will learn it as a second language. It is called "diglossia".

Answer 2

If I recall right, the Enlish used in Europe is a bit different than the English used in the USA. I believe it's called the "Queens English" and ours is called American English. Both seen as totally different.

If you've ever seen the Sci-Fi TV show called Serenity, they show another possible way. What happens in the show is that China forms an alliance with the United States, if I recall right, and then English eventually changes to a mixture of English with Chinese mixed in.

If any country was conquered their language would probably change to more of a combination of what the conquering country is and what theirs are.

Answer 3

Methos99: I think that your first language is not English, otherwise you have already invented a different dialect by the way you phrase, spell and make sentences. May I suggest that you reopen your question and do a Check Spelling. This will show you your mistakes and you will learn. As far as the question goes, English will stay basically the same for a long long time to come. Using proper spelling, grammar and punctuation will ensure that someone on the other side of the world will be able to understand the message. Try not to use this latest text abbreviations as many people do not understand what people who use it are trying to say. Good luck...

Answer 4

You suck, it's people like you that change a language. Historically speaking, languages change the most during periods when people stop caring about education. When a lot of people stop caring about grammar is when a language changes. English is also my second language. I hate the way people in Mexico have stopped caring about grammar, and where the accents go. When I was a boy, people were so picky about grammar in Mexico, today, for some reason, people just stopped caring. This worries me, Mexican Spanish could become very different than the Spanish from Spain. I don't want the same thing that happened between the English from the USA and the UK to happen to Mexican Spanish and the one from Spain.

Answer 5

The English language is constantly evolving. I'm an American and can barely understand people from England. Eventually though you ALL will be speaking American English as it is apparently the government's goal to dominate the world. Sorry about that, I don't support it but it is going to happen.

Answer 6

Language is a living thing. It will develop and change al the time.

Answer 7

Yes, English will change if people like u continue to write without bothering to even get the spelling correct let alone the grammar!

Answer 8

From the spelling and usage that I see on Yahoo! Answers, its going to go down the toilet. Christ! Nobody seems to know how to spell, compose a sentence, use punctuation or the correct tense. The worst part of all it that there is a Spell Check option at the top right hand corner of the text box.

Answer 9

You're already changing the English language by the way you write.

Answer 10

It will become one with all ather languages, though not in that order.