鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma) [alt: 黃家駒 (Wong Ka Kui)]@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 17 hours agoAssuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years?message-squaremessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up160arrow-down13
arrow-up157arrow-down1message-squareAssuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years?鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma) [alt: 黃家駒 (Wong Ka Kui)]@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 17 hours agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-squareAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down2·16 hours agoOnce we get good, universal real-time translation, we might start to see a new proliferation of local languages. And of small groups inventing their own cryptolects for privacy, trying to evolve them faster than AI can keep up.
minus-squareSkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 hours agoHumans have a natural tendency to develop slang. Even in the internet age new slang and in-group languages/dialects are constantly formed What might happen, is that, if people try to keep up with it, you’ll end up with older people fluent in dozens of various internet dialects
Once we get good, universal real-time translation, we might start to see a new proliferation of local languages. And of small groups inventing their own cryptolects for privacy, trying to evolve them faster than AI can keep up.
Humans have a natural tendency to develop slang. Even in the internet age new slang and in-group languages/dialects are constantly formed
What might happen, is that, if people try to keep up with it, you’ll end up with older people fluent in dozens of various internet dialects