Future English Johnson: Simpler and more foreigın Jul 3rd 2014, 11.53 by R.LG BERLIN SEVERAL weeks ago, Johnson discussed his debate with Nicholas Ostler about the ingua franca of the future. Johnson thinks that English has a very long run ahead of it. Mr. Ostler sees English's time as coming to an end, to be replaced by machine- translation tools that will remove the need for people to learn to speak, read and wri a lingua franca. But we agreed that whatever the long run might look like, the next fe decades are set. No language has anything like a chance of displacing English. Interestingly, about two-thirds of English-speakers are not first-language speakers of English. To put it another way: English no longer belongs to England, to superpower America, or even to the English-speaking countries generally. Rather, English is the world's language. What happens to a language when it becomes everybody's? Shaped by the mouths of billions of non-native speakers, what will the English of the future look like? look into past can give us an idea. English is of course not the first language by lots of non-natives. When languages spread, they also change. may simplify because it is spreading. But it is spreading because it is expressive and useful. Most of the world's languages would love to the problems that English has
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