material on the future of English?

[Neal Whitman]

I've found this page on the subject interesting:
http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/futurese.html
This guy has a lot of interesting pages on SF and linguistictopics in a
90sfossil of a website.

Neal

On 4/27/2013 8:48 PM, Dan Goodman wrote:
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> I'm looking for writings on the future of the English language.  I own
> _Predicting New Words_.
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> Presumably, there's other material more recent than L. Sprague De Camp's
> 1938 essay "Language for Time Travelers."
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> And more useful than "The Internet/crystal radio/texting/___ is
> destroying our language!"
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