AD 3000

[ajva]

In the year 3000, will the British-island language be more similar to that of 2000 than that of 2000 was to that of 1000? I rather think so. There will be plenty of neologisms over the next millennium, but unlike the 2000/1000 split, there will be primary sources that you can look at then from AD 2000 that speak aloud. I think this will make it

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[valkyriekaren]

I'm going to equivocate a bit and say, it depends what you're meaning when you say 'language'.

Certainly the vocabulary is going to change dramtically - there are new words entering into the English language all the time, perhaps more than at any time in the last thousand years - both neologisms and loan words from other languages.

But because we now have a literate populace, and a fixed orthography, I don't think we will see dramatic grammatical or phonic changes, as written language does not adapt itself so quickly to 'common usage'.

Plus, to get a linguistic shift like that of the 1100s, we'd need to be conquered by a non-English speaking nation again.

[ciphergoth]

If there are still lots of ordinary bags-of-mostly-water style human beings on this island in the year 3000, I think you're right that their language will more closely resemble our language than ours does that of 1000. However, the scenarios where they still exist that I find most plausible are those where they are either wards of the intelligences that really run the show, or survivors of some great cataclysm.

[alextiefling]

I think it's impossible to be sure. Predicting lingustic drift is like predicting the weather; short-range guessing is quite accurate, but as you reach further ahead, the accuracy diminishes sharply.

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