tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post6291401694242659424..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Language ChangeAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-41590054649360533512010-01-24T18:08:01.804-05:002010-01-24T18:08:01.804-05:00Have you read any of Steven Pinker's books ? H...Have you read any of Steven Pinker's books ? He goes into the origin of irregular verbs and what they teach us about the brain. For example, Wend-Went, Send-Sent.Mike Khttp://abriefhistory.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-46107376573640010542010-01-15T11:36:54.791-05:002010-01-15T11:36:54.791-05:00I doubt we'll all learn to speak Chinese, at l...I doubt we'll all learn to speak Chinese, at least as it is spoken today. I like learning about languages, myself, and have written about it on my blog a few times.<br /><br />In the second half of <a href="http://bendreth.com/?p=655" rel="nofollow">this post</a>, I talk about a news article that talks about the pressures being placed on written Japanese by technology such as cellphones. I expect similar things to happen to written Chinese as technology makes inroads into that society. It may be worse for them, because Chinese has the additional complication of being a tonal language.<br /><br /><a href="http://bendreth.com/?p=526" rel="nofollow">This other post</a> discusses some issues with English a bit more, along with mentioning the reason we have certain issues in the English language.wheelshttp://bendreth.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-32169632133650412092010-01-10T21:06:39.154-05:002010-01-10T21:06:39.154-05:00I doubt we will say "I drived." Anythin...I doubt we will say "I drived." Anything that is strong enough to have made its way into the Basic English that is spoken internationally will likely remain. But less common words might revert to regular declensions.<br /><br />Of course, that is assuming we haven't developed instantaneous translation, or succumbed to some dread worldwide disease, or all learned to speak Chinese instead.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-63721186201257933692010-01-10T20:06:42.058-05:002010-01-10T20:06:42.058-05:00In a hundred years will we say "I drived the ...In a hundred years will we say "I drived the car?" Will there be cars?Gringonoreply@blogger.com