How do you think the English language will change in 100 years?

Answer 1

There will be more non native english speakers then native english speakers worldwide and new slang will develope throughout the multi faceted dialectical regions. There will be so many english speakers all around the world that it will no longer possible to pin down "one" standard english anymore or know which english to compare to that english that was spoken 100 years previous. ie, today!

Answer 2

These kinds of questions are interesting.

I may not have an answer that you like or that you are looking for but this my opinion on it:

It usually takes about 200 years to notice that a language has changed, English or otherwise. For example, stuff that Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) wrote is just beginning to sound quaint to us today. However, stuff that Christopher Marlowe 1564 -1593) and William Shakespeare (1564 -1616) wrote has sounded quaint to us for quite some time now.

If you look at reprints of articles from 1907 in say, "Scientific American" or your local newspaper (if it prints them) you will also be able to perfectly read the English that they are written in.

Over the next 100 years, mostly what will change will probably be just the slang and some new scientific, medical and technological words here and there; the basic grammar and sytnax will remain the same; only slight regional changes will occur in pronunciation.

Looking ahead 500 to 1,000 years from now, however, English may fragment into at least a dozen daughter languages throughout the world that are mutually unintelligible just like Latin did into the Romance languages.

Answer 3

Wow! A 100 years? In order fathom the amount of change that will occur to our language in that time, first you'd have to gauge how much its changed in recent times.
At the beginning of last century 'proper' English, one with lots of big words that had little meaning, was still in use.
By the midcentury, a time when the world was evolvong very quickly, people had less time to get more done, so the language had to change as well. In turn, words got fewer and with bigger meanings.
By the 80's slang was cutting the language even smaller, making one word very powerful and some words overused, i.e.: "Like, that is so, like, cool."
In a hundred years English will be of higher meaning as people have less time for more things, and more slang will cut in as well.

Answer 4

There has been "Old English," "Middle English," and "Modern English." Why shouldn't we assume there will be changes in the future? English is an "alive," living language that has, and IS, changing all the time, which is one of it's strengths.

HOW do I think it will change? The same way it's changed FROM the past to now... ALL over the place! From spellings, to meanings, to pronounciations. It may be almost as unrecognizable in it's "then" form as Middle English is to today's English.

Answer 5

What "expert" English language are you conversing approximately? there is not any such component! English hasn't replaced that lots in the final one hundred years. advantageous there are greater than a number of latest words and vocabulary (extraordinarily scientific/technological words), and a few grammatical structures are starting to be out of date or now sound decidedly previous shaped. attempt analyzing some Charles Dickens, and you will see this is nevertheless completely valid contemporary English. in step with probability Dickens might have slightly greater complication understand-how contemporary interior sight adjustments than we'd have understand-how him, yet I doubt he might have lots complication analyzing a well-known novel. He might ask your self what a television and a internet internet site are even with the undeniable fact that.

Answer 6

I once read a very clever expose on where the english language is heading.It started with the Germanic based languages went full circle and ended back there and it all made sense.

Answer 7

Same way as it changed 100 years ago when "thee" and "neigh" were popular in conversations.
Slang, sadly will be the new English. Yes, I say this with a very very heavy heart.
We've just grown lazier in language now and found a loop hole in formal conversations.

Answer 8

The americans have already tried with some success to destroy the English language. So, probably they will succeed in making it totally unrecognisable. Dang!

Answer 9

A Beta version of future English is widely used in Southern California now. Come over and check it out, amigo.

Answer 10

I think technology, the internet, & scientific discoveries will have the major impact. After that, the ease to communicate with people on other continents will bring in new words.