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Originally Posted by fjtorres
As to the english variants and dialects, they originated *before* modern communications. So they're mostly "legacy" variants.
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/ll/3084/
Now, if the Global English movement continues, we'll soon see another variant that might get annointed as the semi-official world trade language.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/21/ar...pagewanted=all
Who knows? Maybe globish will beget Solarian which will evolve into Galactic.
(Or maybe Galactic will develp out of Spanglish/inglanyol.  ) |
I'm thinking of inter solar-system communications. It really depends on how long it takes to travel and communicate. If traveling is in scale of days or weeks and not nearly free, each community will be isolated. Also planets are such large things, most people don't have need or desire to travel a lot. And as such regional dialects adapted to enviroment might pop-up more. It comes down to speed of communication and travel.
Globish isn't a bad idea, if we could get rid of things which make English such a idiotic language. Making it regular and generalizing spelling. Minimize amount of idioms used and so on. Not language of culture, but commerce and engineering.