Comments on: The evolution of language https://www.procopywriters.co.uk/2015/03/the-evolution-of-language/ Join the UK’s largest membership organisation for commercial writers Thu, 07 Jan 2016 12:02:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Will Edridge https://www.procopywriters.co.uk/2015/03/the-evolution-of-language/#comment-7216 Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:11:47 +0000 http://procopywriters.wpengine.com/?p=4503#comment-7216 I read into something similar recently about how language would evolve over time. Due to globalisation, the prediction is that in the next 100 years or so hundreds of languages will extinct in favour of English which will become a simpler language because of the need to cater to non native speakers.

Technology is strangely powerful driving force. I can’t wait to see what happens in the next 50 years.

]]> By: Rebecca https://www.procopywriters.co.uk/2015/03/the-evolution-of-language/#comment-6120 Fri, 06 Mar 2015 12:34:45 +0000 http://procopywriters.wpengine.com/?p=4503#comment-6120 Thanks, Andy. That’s a fair quibble. I think it would have been enough to say: ‘At the moment, the English language is changing quickly because of technology.’

]]> By: Andy Maslen https://www.procopywriters.co.uk/2015/03/the-evolution-of-language/#comment-6116 Fri, 06 Mar 2015 11:31:01 +0000 http://procopywriters.wpengine.com/?p=4503#comment-6116 Nice post – I, too, mourn the passing of those lovely words from everyday children’s usage, especially since we moved to the country. I agree with your point about limiting children’s grasp of the world.

Teeny quibble: not sure we are experiencing the biggest and fastest change in the evolution of English. Take 500-1100 AD – the coming of Christianity and literacy. Or the Industrial revolution. Or the age of Empire and all those loan words.

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