Introduce the document and summarize its content in English by explaining all the ways that English is being influenced.
One way of predicting the future Is to look back at the past. The global role English plays today as a lingua franca-used as a means af communication by speakers of different languages--has parallels In the Latin of pre-modern Europe.
Having been spread by the success of the Roman Empire, Classical Latin was kept alive as a 6 standard written medium throughout Europe long after the fall of Rome. But the Vulgar Latin used in speech continued to change, forming new dialects, which In time gave rise to the modern Romance languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanlan, and Itallan.
Similar developments may be traced today In the use of English around the globe, especlally in countries where It functions as a second language. New "Interlanguages" are emerging, in which
to features of English are mingled with those of other native tongues and their pronunciations.
Despite the Singaporean government's attempts to promote the use of Standard British English, the mixed language known as "Singlish" remains the varlety spoken on the street and in the home.
Spanglish, a mixture of English and Spanish, Is the native tongue of millions of speakers in the United States, suggesting that this varlety Is emerging as a language in Its own right. So, the future
15 for English Is one of multiple Englishes.
Today the largest concentration of native speakers Is in the US, and the influence of US English can be heard throughout the world: can I get a cookle, I'm good, did you eat, the movies, "skedule" rather than "shedule." In the future, to speak English will be to speak US English. US spellings such as disk and program are already preferred to British equivalents disc and programme in computing.
20 In the 20th century, it was feared that English dialects were dylng out with their speakers. A study in 2004 turned up a rich range of local accents and regional terms which are avallable online, demonstrating the vibrancy and longevity of dialect vocabulary. In the online world, attitudes to consistency and correctness are considerably more relaxed: varlant spellings are accepted, and punctuation marks omitted. Capital letters are used to show anger, misspellings convey humour
5 and establish group identity, and smiley-faces or emoticons express a range of reactions.
The fast-changing world of social media is also responsible for the coining and spreading of neologisms, or "new words". Recent updates to Oxford Dictionaries glve a flavor: mansplaining, awesomesauce, rly, bants, TL; DR (too long; didn't read).
Clipped forms, acronyms, blends, and abbrevlations have long been productive methods of word 30 formation in English (think of bus, smog and scuba), but the huge increase In such colnages means
that they will be far more prominent in the English of 2115.
What will the English language be ilke in 100 years?, The Conversation (2015)