Sirian - a dialect of English

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I think Salmoneus had a good point. Look at how vowels have changed and are changing. See which ones are most unstable. And think of how these changes happen, one at a time, in the context of actual English sentences and grammar. There is someone years ago who made a step-by-step evolved English ultimately ending in 3000 AD. It was pretty cool the way he extrapolated modern English into the future incrementally.
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Hydroeccentricity wrote:There is someone years ago who made a step-by-step evolved English ultimately ending in 3000 AD. It was pretty cool the way he extrapolated modern English into the future incrementally.
Are you thinking of TaylorS' Mekoshan? (Though that was more recent, I think…)
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Linguifex wrote:
Hydroeccentricity wrote:There is someone years ago who made a step-by-step evolved English ultimately ending in 3000 AD. It was pretty cool the way he extrapolated modern English into the future incrementally.
Are you thinking of TaylorS' Mekoshan? (Though that was more recent, I think…)
I think it's this one.
After ordering a pint of his favorite ale, Robert was perplexed when the barmaid replied that the fishmonger was next door. The Great English Vowel Shift had begun.
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Yes! That's the one, thanks.
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KathAveara, Thanks I forgot about that feature!
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One cannot have phonological simplification without grammatical complication, and vice versa.
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Karinta wrote:One cannot have phonological simplification without grammatical complication, and vice versa.
what

the poster child example of this being wrong is spoken by 900 million people and yet you manage to overlook it
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