和英文说再见吧
如果这个2008年的报告的可信度很高的话，今天你的孩子在学习英文，三十岁的时候，他要再重新学习过英文，那是称为 Panglish.
聪明的家长是会选择学习世界语 Esperanto。
当英文的国际地位穷途末路后，就没有其他的民族语文成为国际语，唯一的是人造语，那么联合国推荐的世界语，就是其中一个选择了。
聪明的家长是会选择学习世界语 Esperanto。
当英文的国际地位穷途末路后，就没有其他的民族语文成为国际语，唯一的是人造语，那么联合国推荐的世界语，就是其中一个选择了。
English will turn into Panglish in 100 years
12:01AM GMT 27 Mar 2008
English as it is spoken today will have disappeared in 100 years and could be replaced by a global language called Panglish, researchers claim.
Children read gossip magazines over books
New words will form and meanings will change with the most dramatic changes being made by people learning English as a second language, says Dr Edwin Duncan, a historian of English at Towson University in Maryland, in the US.
According to the New Scientist, the global form of English is already becoming a loose grouping of local dialects and English-based common languages used by non-native speakers to communicate.
By 2020 there may be two billion people speaking English, of whom only 300 million will be native speakers. At that point English, Spanish, Hindi, Urdu and Arabic will have an equal number of native speakers.
Dr Suzette Haden Elgin, a retired linguist formerly at San Diego University in California, said: "I don't see any way we can know whether the result of what's going on now will be Panglish - a single English that would have dialects... or scores of wildly varying Englishes, many or most of them heading toward mutual unintelligibility." How long will it take to find out? "My guess, a wild guess, is less than 100 years."
12:01AM GMT 27 Mar 2008
English as it is spoken today will have disappeared in 100 years and could be replaced by a global language called Panglish, researchers claim.
Children read gossip magazines over books
New words will form and meanings will change with the most dramatic changes being made by people learning English as a second language, says Dr Edwin Duncan, a historian of English at Towson University in Maryland, in the US.
According to the New Scientist, the global form of English is already becoming a loose grouping of local dialects and English-based common languages used by non-native speakers to communicate.
By 2020 there may be two billion people speaking English, of whom only 300 million will be native speakers. At that point English, Spanish, Hindi, Urdu and Arabic will have an equal number of native speakers.
Dr Suzette Haden Elgin, a retired linguist formerly at San Diego University in California, said: "I don't see any way we can know whether the result of what's going on now will be Panglish - a single English that would have dialects... or scores of wildly varying Englishes, many or most of them heading toward mutual unintelligibility." How long will it take to find out? "My guess, a wild guess, is less than 100 years."
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