The evolution of language.

[CosmicNoodle]

Language is fascinating in my opinion, a way of communicating ideas and thoughts with the medium of sound.

Language evolves with time, morphing and "Evolving" if you will.
But its evolution is slowing down or happening differently.
The reason i think languages evolution is slowing down is because it only evolved because we where not educated, people spelt things the way they sounded for hundreds of years, this would lead to words changing and mutating in the way they where spelt, ergo evolution only changed because we where not educated properly. These days we are educated properly, this means we know how to spell correctly, words no longer change the way they used to, now they are set in stone, the only way language changes now is when people make new words or shorten them such as has been done with (A personally hated term) YOLO.

Or will words simply evolve i a different way, such as the internet, or will they change through other languages coming together, or will nothing change at all, will it just keep on evolving in it's own way

Just something that has been on my mind today.

What are your thoughts on it?

[JAB555]

I like the English language, and that's it. I don't like other languages because sometimes, I have to learn them. Now that sucks. Right now I'm taking Spanish in class, yes I have an a in the class, but I really hate it. Like the teacher, hate the class, just because it's in a different language.

[sqishy]

Well idk if languages are evolving faster/slower than before, but they will always evolve and eventually become something that is entirely different than what they started off as, given enough time.
For example, some English evolved from German.

[Vocabulous]

I like the English language, and that's it. I don't like other languages because sometimes, I have to learn them. Now that sucks. Right now I'm taking Spanish in class, yes I have an a in the class, but I really hate it. Like the teacher, hate the class, just because it's in a different language.

The English language just beats up other languages in dark alleys and rummages about in their pockets for spare vocabulary

[SosbanFach]

I don't agree that it is slowing. Yes, we now have a standardised spelling system in English (or several systems, as Chrome has just reminded me by underlining 'standardised' to turn it to 'standardized'), but the dawn of new media of communication have meant that developments have been made. I refer, for example, to text messaging. All of a sudden we have a system which has (or has had) a somewhat inconvenient input system and a character limit, and is used for informal communications. As such, the language has been modified to accommodate this, through abbreviations and phonetic spellings. In general, this modification has been unofficial, but it still infiltrates day-to-day speech.

Furthermore, we have, with the internet, greater international communication and collaboration than ever before in the history of mankind. This has undoubtedly had a role in the greater Anglicisation of the world. Although I find that this prioritisation of English internationally is generally negative, it does have advantages in expanding the diversity of the English language. Take such examples as 'Hinglish' - a portmanteau of 'Hindi' and 'English', and a rapidly expanding dialectal ofshoot in India. Of course, I know little on the subject of such evolution, but I do feel that it is happening more today than ever before. I would also say that, although changes may be obvious with hindsight, they are probably subtle as they occur.


Apologies for this text wall. A rambling it may be, but wise? I think perhaps not.

[Miserabilia]

I have always been obsessed with languages :)

[Twilly F. Sniper]

It's extremely hard to tell.

[Mutah]

I disagree with the idea that the spread of education has led to language being stunted in any way. The language itself does not change much with varied spelling - tenses and sentence formations have been standardized for centuries whereas spelling has hopped back and forth until recently, not making much of a difference in the core.

Plus this seems to be an issue for English only. I am not sure about other languages, but Urdu (and other languages with the Perso-Arabic script) have always had unanimity in the spelling of words, but that is probably because the alphabet is more detailed in sounds considering there are multiple letters for the English letters of T, Z, K, and even Y.

I place most of the blame regarding the change in language over the past few decades on laziness. SosbanFach mentioned texting and character limits, it heavily restricts the use of language and forces us to be as concise as possible only to lose all those juicy details. It's the same speaking wise, I have more complaints on that regarding my mother tongue of Urdu rather than English, however, so it wouldn't make much sense..

[Carlsen]

EU it have open borders and this will change many language to evolve to be different.

[Get Outta Compton]

Language is only a tool to cover up the truth.