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Old 13-Aug-2005, 12:26
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Default Re: Linguistic Predictions

It will change, but the driving force of the change will be simplification, etc, to make it more useful for convenience. This means it might break away from local versions like British and American English, but the aim of international English is to create a system for worldwide communication. Therefore, the changes, I feel, will be to make the language better for this purpose, so I expect simplification, spelling changes, etc.
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