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FUTURE
SEVERAL weeks ago, Johnson discussed
his debate with Nicholas Ostler about the
lingua franca of the future. Johnson thinks
that English has a very long run ahead of
it. Mr. Ostler sees English's time as coming
to an end, to be replaced by machine-
translation tools that will remove the need
for people to learn to speak, read and write a lingua franca. But we agreed
that whatever the long run might look like, the next few decades are set.
No language has anything like a chance of displacing English.
Interestingly, about two-thirds of English-speakers are not first-language
speakers of English. To put it another way: English no longer belongs to
England, to superpower America, or even to the English-speaking countries
generally. Rather, English is the world's language. What happens to a
language when it becomes everybody's? Shaped by the mouths of billions
of non-native speakers, what will the English of the future look like?
A look into the past can give us an idea. English is of coursë not the
first language learned by lots of non-natives. When languages spread, they
also change. (...)
English may simplify because it is spreading. But it is spreading because
it is expressive and useful. Most of the world's languages would love to
have the problems that English has.


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