How will the English language change?

I heard someone say the English language would not be recognizable in 50 years. W

What would you like to change about it?

Do you think it will change for the better or worse?How will the English language change?
Change has to take place in order for the language - any language - to evolve. If that didn't happen, we'd still be grunting and moaning in our caves...it took someone with enough courage to stand up and identify an object with a word, and then a following of people to accept that word.



In today's society, we're moving at lightning-fast speeds. There's no time to do this, there's no time to do that. We use acronyms, and we shorten the last names of some people to get our ideas out faster. This is going to continue, it's going to roll forward just like the first names that we gave objects in the caves long ago...



Just because there are rules in place...it doesn't mean that they're law. You don't have to follow the rules of English, because it's painfully obvious that the people who invented the language weren't sure about their own rules to begin with. *cough cough*



Rules were made to be broken, and this is the exciting part. In the years that we're alive, we're going to see the language become more streamlined. It's going to be faster to communicate ideas. It's going to become more simple.



Down the road, people are going to read the way that we wrote and think...yeeesh, what were they thinking? To them, all of this might sound the way thees and thous sound to us today.



I welcome the changes coming our way. ;)How will the English language change?
If we keep allowing this garbage known as text speak to infiltrate our lives, it will only get worse. No one has any regard for decent English and unfortunately people continue to avoid learning to write properly. It's a downright shame to me.



As a writer watching this happen, it's a real insult to see people abuse the language the way they do. Am I perfect? No. Do I make errors? I most certainly do. But! I make the effort to hone my craft and ensure that the written word is treated with respect. People who refuse to learn to write well do little more than irritate me.



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See now, in my opinion it's people like Wonder who make justifications for screwing the English language by referencing our lack of time. Sorry, I do not buy that garbage. If people cannot find five minutes to read a paragraph then they are displaying their ignorance.



I NEVER want to see an ad like this:



';Looking 2 buy a new car? Come in 2day %26amp; chek it out. U will B amazed @ wut U C.';



Language can and will evolve but hopefully the change will be one that still favors readability, functionality, and respect for presentation. If it evolves into something that panders to fools who live in a world of acronyms and shortened sentences because they are too ignorant to grasp longer and more complex words, I fear for the English language.
If people stop using LOL or LMFAO, then it will get better.
Well, it is a very broad question. Language is constantly changing. Dialects already exist in English (look at Jamaican English v. Hawaiian English v. Standard American English (with its different sub-dialects) v. Queen's English (and its various dialects), etc.), and, although they are pretty much mutually intelligible right now, that may change.



Then you have to think in terms of slang being used so much, it's pretty much substituted the standard word. Take the example of ';thanks';. Usually an American would say ';thanks';, whereas my experience with Brits and Aussies, they usually say ';Cheers';. Who knows...that may become the standard word down the road.



Now as far as 50 years, I don't know about that...but 500 years would make a big difference. Just try to read a Shakespeare play. It almost seems like another language, with different words and grammar rules.



Here are some resources on the evolution of language:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_ev鈥?/a>

http://www.brainconnection.com/topics/?m鈥?/a>

http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/EP057鈥?/a>

http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/evolengl鈥?/a>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_鈥?/a>



With these, you could get an idea of how it has changed so far, and, analyzing how the current world factors in, deduce on where it is going as a language (or, if I'm right, possibly several languages.


We speak the American language. The UK speaks English. Ain't you heard?



Our language needs to change with the times. The Dictionary that I used when I was in high school defines a computer as someone who tabulates numbers. Is this definition appropriate today...



It is changing for the better. What would be worse for a language than not being communicative?