English is currently one of the dominant languages on the planet due to the spread of the US and UK empires in the last century. With the rise of technology English may be made redundant with the advent of automatic language translation.
Just waiting for made up languages to become the norm (e.g. Esperanto), or hyper language learning.
Now ponder, as Douglas Hofstadter did, translating Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky from English into French, German, and Russian (Cyrillic .GIF) or (ASCII transliteration).
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday January 28 2019, @02:41AM (2 children)
And Esperanto has already evolved a new grammatical particle. And probably a lot of vocabulary.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday January 28 2019, @04:15AM (1 child)
“Clitic”.
Clitics are mentioned in wikipedia’s Grammatical Particle article
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitic [wikipedia.org]
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(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday January 29 2019, @09:26PM
Yes, clitics are fun.