Timeline for How to speak with someone whose language drifted from your own
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:52 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 18, 2016 at 18:58 | comment | added | Oldcat | Ever talked to a teenager? | |
| Feb 29, 2016 at 21:03 | comment | added | nigel222 | My personal experience of a few days in Amsterdam with my fluent English and rudimentary German. I could often decode written Dutch. Once I'd worked out the vowel migrations it lay sort of halfway between German and English. Spoken Dutch remained incomprehensible but as background hubbub it sounded just like English. It was only when I tried to "tune in" that it's foreign-ness became apparent. | |
| Sep 16, 2015 at 13:43 | history | edited | James | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 16, 2015 at 13:40 | comment | added | James | Extra slowly, in a repetitive manner, gradually increasing in volume, it has never failed. | |
| Sep 16, 2015 at 12:34 | answer | added | JDługosz | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 16, 2015 at 12:07 | answer | added | RedSonja | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 13:36 | comment | added | Mermaker | I want to add that there are several settlements on the south of Brazil that use an ancient form of German that didn't see almost any changes since the first germans got there. While it is similar to modern German, it's like the language froze in time in those settlements. | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 14:30 | vote | accept | dsollen | ||
| Jul 3, 2015 at 13:59 | answer | added | Travis Smith of Bexar | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jul 3, 2015 at 7:57 | comment | added | o0'. | @Lostinfrance that's why I said "might", I'm not sure about that. Still, I think you could get better answers over there. Once over there they just tell you "well, no, we don't know", then you'd have to come back here for some people to guess. | |
| Jul 2, 2015 at 19:54 | comment | added | Twelfth | Not worthy of an answer...but Ive learned to use pidgeon english due to travel...nouns and the sort dont vary heavily, grammar does. By elimimating tense and only using a single verb per sentance works to sone degree. Shared origins would reveal the nouns amd the sort. Not entirely, but a shared noun set will help establish communication | |
| Jul 2, 2015 at 19:01 | comment | added | Frostfyre | @bilbo_pingouin I'm aware it's a separate question. I did denote it as a tangential question. After browsing the Linguistics SE, it seems there's no real answer to how language will evolve from modern times. | |
| Jul 2, 2015 at 18:44 | comment | added | Lostinfrance | @Lohoris, I disagree with your view that this question is unsuitable for Worldbuilding SE. The tradition of giving a feeling of reality to your created world by having your fictional languages exhibit a credible evolutionary history dates at least from Tolkien. | |
| S Jul 2, 2015 at 18:17 | history | suggested | clem steredenn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 2, 2015 at 18:02 | comment | added | clem steredenn | @dsollen I think it is not very clear what you are asking. You seem to be mixing the evolution of a language as observed by a time traveller, and the drifts of a once-common language in two separated culture. Could you try to clarify? | |
| Jul 2, 2015 at 18:00 | comment | added | clem steredenn | @Frostfyre this is a question of its own. In two words, I'd say something like the "simplified English" will develop as a common tongue for international communication. Call me optimist, but I think other languages (including standard English) will keep going on, though indeed drifting to the common language. | |
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| Jul 2, 2015 at 17:44 | answer | added | Raestloz | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jul 2, 2015 at 17:09 | comment | added | o0'. | This might be a better question for Language SE, maybe? It's very technical, it requires just that technical knowledge, and doesn't require "making stuff up coherently" like usually questions here do. | |
| Jul 2, 2015 at 16:36 | comment | added | Frostfyre | Tangential question: How likely are our modern languages to drift, given the near-global access to the Internet? Would they more likely merge to form one hodgepodge language (kind of like English already is) or remain as they are with minimal shift? | |
| Jul 2, 2015 at 16:07 | history | asked | dsollen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |