When will English finally die out?

Question

Just wondering when English as we know it will die out? By "as we know it" I mean a point when an average native fluent English speaker of today wouldn't be able to understand the majority of something being spoke to him/her, or something written.

Answer 1

it wont happen,english is a living language and will only become more popular worldwide,

Answer 2

The Latin Language lived even a thousand years after the Romans died as a power and so it could be the case with the English, but then again tis is the era of information and so it happens that things happen much faster.
The only thing is that if there was no English what would be speaing with, I am not english, and for now and untill something better or easier comes aboiut we l thank god for English.
And if the English LAnguage to die it would have to be the English as a people to die first and then the language wil follow slowly and insidiously. Unless something better comes along. History is unpredictable all the time.
The Romans would have never thought that some Nothing would come in Britan and rule the World and bring about teir language to the world.
We might even see it in our lifetime. Globaling world makes evrything posible. Evrything happens with the speed of light.
nothing would shgock me. I mean in 1996 the internet was like so hard to get and now its evrywhere, and so is the English in evry home.
And for now its stays with no competitors.

Answer 3

It has been about 500 years since the last radical language change. With technology things seem to be happening faster, so maybe a language change will happen sooner. I feel that in 100 years, a person who is alive today would not understand what was being said.

In some instances, these changes are brought about out of laziness. For example, during the 1700's in France the teens of the time period started dropping the endings from all of their spoken words. The French language is spoken that way today.

Esthernunoo says that English will not have a radical change but typed his response in a way that was hard for traditional English speakers to decipher. His typing method is to shorten many words to a phonetic spelling only, and many of the words he used will eventually become standard. As scary as it sounds there is probably nothing that can be done about it.

Answer 4

Pretty soon, I bet, because of the gangs and epidemic of slang and most students' inability to use the English language. Even some adults don't know what a verb is. Eventually, unfortunately, we'll accomodate them. Luckily, though, we have a factor on our side that may extend the period Modern English is, well, modern. We have standardized our language and have a couple of books that outline accepted usage: the MLA style books and the OED. The OED employs a highly educated group to choose which words can become actual words, so we don't have too many ridiculous words in common circulation (at least on the scholarly level).

Answer 5

English has spread to the point of becoming an international language. If English dies out, by that time it might've evolved into different colloquial languages, similar to how Latin of the cast Roman Empire broke down into Italian, French, Romanian, Portugese, Catalan, etc. In essence, it'll never completely die out.

Answer 6

That process generally takes 500-1000 years. We can understand Shakespeare (400 years ago), but not Chaucer (700 years ago).

Answer 7

the techniques you have incorrect, yet that's what happens interior the e book: Alastor Moody dies Hedwig dies Fred Weasly dies Remus Lupin dies Nymphadora Tonks dies Severus Snape dies Voldemort dies Dobby dies Colin Creevey dies Bellatrix Lestrange dies Rufus Scrimgeour dies Ted Tonks dies Peter Pettigrew dies Vincent Crabbe dies and over 50 different nameless human beings die bill and Fleur get married Remus and Tonks get married a million toddler: Ted Ron and Hermione get married: 2 babies: Rose, Hugo Harry and Ginny get married: 3 babies: James, Albus, Lily

Answer 8

It probably will one day, who knows when. There will be scholars who study "Classical" English just as people study ancient languages now.

Answer 9

i dunt think it will die out, bcuz it is spoken all over. but the amont of time it took spanish to be spoken all over(too) is the same amount of time it might take english to die out.(mayb 700 yeers). by that time, either spanish or an asian language will rule

Answer 10

In about 153 years.

Answer 11

It's happening. Just try to read some of the Q&As on this forum.