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  • #31
    There have been so many new words introduced in the last century. Look at all the differences between Shakespeare's English and ours. Go back 900 years and it is very difficult to understand.

    900 years from now I imagine English will borrow even more words from other languages, and have lots of new words to describe things we haven't thought of yet. I'm with Kuci, it'll be much different.
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    • #32
      Good question.

      Ancrene Wisse
      http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/hasenfratz.htm
      The early thirteenth-century devotional guide _Ancrene Wisse_, or “Anchoresses’ Guide,” is a revision of an earlier work written to instruct three noblewomen enclosed as anchoresses in the West Midlands in their religious devotion; its readership had expanded to more than twenty anchoresses by the time of its revision. Its use of Middle English, uncommon as a medium for serious religious instruction in the thirteenth century, both attests to the state of language training among the laywomen who comprised the text’s intended audience, and reflects its composition within the West Midlands, a region with a strong tradition of English literary culture stretching back to the late Anglo-Saxon period. _Ancrene Wisse_ gives modern readers a window into not only thirteenth-century English literary production, but also an unusual and striking form of medieval Christian devotion that held appeal for noblewomen seeking a pious life in the tradition of desert spirituality and asceticism.


      This would be the nearest analogy.
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      • #33
        900 years we might not even be around. Once GM viruses become high school science projects we're all pretty much dead...

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        • #34
          Originally posted by OzzyKP
          There have been so many new words introduced in the last century. Look at all the differences between Shakespeare's English and ours. Go back 900 years and it is very difficult to understand.

          900 years from now I imagine English will borrow even more words from other languages, and have lots of new words to describe things we haven't thought of yet. I'm with Kuci, it'll be much different.
          New words sure, but I was under the impression that Kuci meant syntax (as he said it would require "several years of study"). I'd say more like a few weeks...
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          • #35
            Well 12-century "English" was an entirely different language. I don't think we'll evolve as much as it did, but I do think vocabulary alone will change enough to make things difficult.

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