Journal Journal: Linguistic Evolution
This new language that I have been seeing involves nearly all of the same words and grammar as English, but used very differently. Words that in English used to describe facts are now used to describe opinions, and vice-versa. Interestingly enough, I find that when I use the English that I have grown up speaking, I can converse with other English speaking people - including people versed in the Queen's English - however I cannot converse with people who speak this new "American" English. I am willing to postulate that people who speak primarily in this new English would be challenged greatly if they were to attempt to communicate with any international speakers of English.
This is a very interesting time we live in. In my lifetime we have seen the death of a number of languages, although I am not sure if we can demonstrate having witnessed the birth of a new one. One cannot help but wonder what types of changes this new language might bring to this country and indeed the world.
I cannot help but wonder when we will see schools start to teach how to communicate in this new English language. I wonder how much those schools will cost, or how much a professional translator will earn who can convert speech or text between the two (while some similarities still exist, I postulate we will quickly exceed the current abilities of machine-only translation).