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To: LindyBill who wrote (101513)	2/21/2005 6:40:09 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793771

If English does "win out", as a true world language (and not just as a 2nd language and the language of international diplomacy and commerce and science but as a language everyone speaks) than it might be rather different than today's English, it would take centuries, perhaps millennia for it to totally take over and it would develop itself and also absorb from other languages in the process. If we were to jump ahead in time to that point we might find it hard to understand everyone at least if they didn't make an effort to speak slowly and clearly. The language might resemble today's English about as much as that of the Shakespeare's time, or possibly even the language in the Canterbury Tales. Tim