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by Modern English is generally intelligible between dialects and can trace its origins back to around the 17th century to a form that transitioned from its predecessor, Old English. The language spread globally thanks to British colonialism and established itself as the lingua franca spoken by half a billion people. Its evolution is quite obvious looking only at the short span of 200 years where American English deviated from nearly every other variety. Linguists are already predicting that within the next 100 years, a new form of English will become "normal" - one that is representative of global dialects and alterations. In a matter of twelve years time, there will be an estimated two billion English speakers of whom only 300 million are native. The alterations will be the result of first language influences on the way English is spoken as an alternate language.
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Global communications by NomadSoul :: NR6 :: Show
It seems things like television and the internet will lead to the "Panglish" theory being correct, rather than the separate versions of English theory. Probably it will be a combination of the two--everyone will speak "Panglish" as a universal language for exchanging goods and ideas, but retain separate dialects or other traditional languages for use in more private contexts.
I'm already falling behind--I've never owned a cell-phone, and have yet to learn the "text-messaging" dialect; which seems like a combination of Chinese (the way a single symbol can represent an entire word), and maybe Arabic or Hebrew, the way most of the vowels are removed.