• 389aaa [it/its]
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    4 years ago

    I mean, I think that'd delay it, but I'm talking about a very long-term process here. Like, this shit is gonna happen on the same timescale that things like 'all languages more-or-less melding into one SUPERLANGUAGE because of the long-term contact and cultural exchange from globalization'. It's the kind of material process that's basically unstoppable just because of how culture, like, works.

    Edit: You probably would still have significantly different regional/local dialects mind, but the massive increase in language-similarity is still inevitable.

    • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      i don't agree. culture does not automatically coalese, languages rarely naturally combine, and technology can be applied both to aid homogenity or avert it.