"J. Goard" <wyattoil@foothill.net> writes:
> In recent times, and in the future, we should expect to find an evolution
> of language in line with a radically different environment. A very
> difficult subject there with much room for exploration.
For a fictional example of such a change, see
http://www.kheper.auz.com/orions_arm/linguistics/Coronese.html
"Academic Coronese - A Brief Primer" by fellow transhumanist Mikael
Johansson. It is a kind of extrapolation of English into a language
used by future cyborg academicians, including some HTML-like markup
elements and a need for an extended short-term memory.
While we are still at conlangs, see also
http://www.zompist.com/kit.html "The Language Construction Kit" for an
accessible introduction to the possibilities of new languages.
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