Predicting the future of the English language is rather easy, in the short term. The odds are, over the next few decades its New World dialects are going to gain increasing global dominance, accelerating the demise of thousands of less fortunate languages but at long last allowing a single advertisement to reach everybody in the world.
Interesting article about the future of the American language.
For example, now we say:
We children beg you, teacher, that you should teach us to speak correctly, because we are ignorant and we speak corruptly...
In 3000 AD we will say:
Za kiad w'-exùn ya tijuh, da ya-gAr'-eduketan zA da wa-tAgan lidla, kaz 'ban iagnaran an wa-tAg kurrap...
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