Thread 213065961

Will English still be the lingua franca in 100 years?

chinese is not hieroglyphic

>>213065961 (OP)
Yes, nobody gives a fuck about your gay languages only spoken by dying boomers, usually terrible convoluted grammar far worse than English anyway

>>213065961 (OP)
I think English is the most sophisticated language and a very fine one as well.

Also he's right.

not learning chinese even if west falls into dark age and china will be a beacon of civilization

>>213065961 (OP)
Presumably, but I think it all depends on how important the US is by then. If the US is still a top 3 or 4 country by then I think it still will be. The languages of every other significant country are too hard to learn.
If the US is completely irrelevant then probably not. People will probably speak Chinese or, God forbid, whatever they speak in India just due to their insane population numbers.

>>213065961 (OP)
>English is just a group of words cobbled together around the world

every language is you fucking yank xitter retard, god i hate the internet

>>213066076
>chinese is not hieroglyphic
It is when you try to write non-Sino sphere loan words and names

>>213066076
but it's writing system is inferior to variants of the latin alphabet

>>213065961 (OP)
Yeah Mandarin has no chance of overtaking English even if China is the most powerful country.

Also, its more likely that we move to a world where China, Europe and USA are all very powerful, and two of those 3 have English as the primary language, add in India as the fourth also where English is common. Complete Chinese global dominance seems like an unlikely scenario, even if they are individually the most powerful country.

>>213066215
it's logographic
>>213066221
no one writes anyway, electronic chinese is just as speedy and functional as any alphabet based language

>>213065961 (OP)
people will communicate through electric signals via neuralink, language as we know it, relying on sounds and words, will be obsolete.

>>213065961 (OP)
>You could think of English as a proto-AI
English = MC^2 +AI

>>213066340
The Oracle bone script for urine is literally guy peeing

>>213066176
English is the only IE language that degenerated to analytic status. Every other IE language is synthetic. It literally is cobbling words together because there’s zero morphology.

>>213066668
and yet, English has arisen to the status of the language of the arts, STEM, research, and culture

>>213066076
nerd