Creoles, Pidgins, and Minority Languages

FUTURESE
The American Language in 3000 AD:

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. Then after a century or two of US dominance some other geopolitical grouping will gain the ascendancy, everyone will learn Chechen or Patagonian or whatever it is, and history will continue as usual. Ho hum. But apart from that... what might the language actually look like in a thousand years time? For comparison, the English spoken at the turn of the last millennium looked like this:

New Scientist Article

...so you can pick up your portfolio out front of my office. Thanks to everyone for putting in such hard work and making this a very fun quarter.

Well its been an interesting time this  quarter.

Thanks for all your insightes..

good luck in future

-Amanda

For the last week we don't have anything but the study guide, correct?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiUA-cfhdck-baby talk so sweet

Talk about a fascinating subject. This week's readings and topics are very fun.

I really enjoy some of the histories of words. Money and Husband were particularly interesting. It would have been fitting to the enlgish language's complexity provided the feminine form of hūsbōndi from Old Norse had stuck around!

I wonder how strange our own modern words for computers and technology ( like CD rom, google, 'leet' etc) will seem to future generations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcp8v04Zw-E

If that doesn't convey a message, I don't think words do either.

This is an interesting nova episode about a family who walks on all fours. Among other things they discuss genetics and evolution and talk a little about language and what makes humans human. 

Here are the two presentations that I showed this week.

As we have learned, kids practice speech to get the right sounds down. This one is headed in the right direction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pj2Nutu5v8

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I've forgotten to mention this for two classes in a row, so I'm posting it here in hopes that it will help me remember to talk about it.

I'll be at a training on Thursday, March 6th, so we'll have to work something alternative meeting time for that class. I'd even be willing to have two sessions, so that everyone could make it.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm teaching at Grays Harbor during that weekend, so that's out. I could do Tuesday, the 4th or Wednesday the 5th. I could also do Monday, the 10th.

Hello. Speaking of morphemes, I'm wondering what you all think of this great new word from yours truely. Concise had no verb form that I was aware of and so I made one. I'm just not sure how to spell it.   No doubt someone out there has an opinion.