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>I find it plausible that a much, much larger corpus of text written in present-day-English will survive the next 10000 years than that which has survived the p
by Loughla 11y ago
>I find it plausible that a much, much larger corpus of text written in present-day-English will survive the next 10000 years than that which has survived the past 2000
Tell me why you believe this, please.
- dragonwriter 11y agoI'm not the one who made the claim, but there is a much larger starting corpus with more copies of each individual work, and better institutions dedicated to preserving works and better preservation technology. And a lot better geographic spread of those works in modern English than for any language from 2000 years ago. So it's not all that hard to see why one might make that prediction.
- ekianjo 10y agoIn case of a nuclear apocalypse and very few survivors remaining to take care of whatever's left, your chances of having anything maintained over 10 000 years is close to nil. And nuclear conflict was an extremely likely scenario just a few decades ago, we have no way of telling it won't ever be again, with way more destructive power than prior civilizations ever possessed.