On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:39:04 +0000 (UTC), "Geoffrey S. Mendelson"
wrote:

There has always been a language of trade and diplomacy, recently up to
WWII, it was French. After WWII it became the US dialect of English.

One of my friends is a doctor originally from Pakistan. He learned
English so that he could emigrate to California. He recently remarked
that he would have done better to learn Spanish.

That has grown into what is becoming a dialect of English used on the Internet,
which will be the common languge for probably 20 or 30 years or more.

I'm not talking about "leet" (WTF, OMG, etc), but something like "I can haz
cheezburger?"

Nope. The language of the future will be SMS-talk and other languages
that consist mostly of abbreviations, acronyms, and pictograms.
Tomorrows principle languages will be what the kids of today are
using:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_language
http://www.nationaltextingregistry.us/acronym_listing/
Hopefully, I won't be around to see it happen.


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