Topic > Our English Language in 500 Years - 863

Our English Language should be accompanied by a huge, bright warning sign that says "under construction". If we were to go back in time to 1450 AD, we would discover the nascent stages of our current period of modern English. However, when studying Shakespeare's works, which date back to the 1500s, a translation of many of his lines is necessary for most ordinary people to understand all that he is implying. Therefore, one can only imagine the huge amount of changes that will happen to our language. I predict that within the next five centuries we will have acquired a language that longs to be efficient, creating a less appreciated literary art and resulting in a decline in common vocabulary. We seek the maximum rate of efficiency in all aspects of daily life. our current society. Our machines, human labor, learning, and businesses are continually searching for the perfect formula that will result in one hundred percent efficiency. So what would happen if we could communicate perfectly effectively? What if every word we speak describes the precise meaning we mean? Our conversations would be quicker and more productive if we used fewer filler words or expletives, elaborate descriptions and synonyms, or redundant phrases. To achieve the language described above the articles “a” and “the” would not be necessary. We would use just one of the multitude of synonyms for a single word, and when explaining an item or situation, we would describe it once and move on with the point of the story. You will easily notice a significant decrease in the use and incorporation of minutiae. Talking this way, using less energy to communicate the same idea and message, will result in a shorter conversation... middle of the paper... normally referring to happy, sad, and mad rather than auspicious, discouraged, and irascible. I could have bluntly written this essay in half the words and I would have conveyed the same message. Of course, I would not have shown this information with the same emphasis and exaggeration. My arguments about the state of our language in five hundred years about the pursuit of efficiency, about the devaluation of art and literature, about the acquisition of a vocabulary without art, would have been less strengthened, but the gist would have been the same. However, twice as many papers could have been graded in the same amount of time, students would have had more time to devote to other tasks, and, frankly, this course would have been considered more of a history course than one intended to expand one's skills. internal dictionary. However, in our current phase of language use, being verbose and grandiloquent has great value.