material on the future of English?

Dan Goodman dsgood at IPHOUSE.COM
Sat May 4 23:29:22 UTC 2013


On 04/28/2013 02:38 PM, Neal Whitman wrote:
>
> 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.

Much thanks!

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