> Controversial opinon: linguistic evolution is slowing down considerably. Borg hivemind convergence is a bog-standard HN opinion. Although still controversial

> Controversial opinon: linguistic evolution is slowing down considerably. Borg hivemind convergence is a bog-standard HN opinion. Although still controversial enough to elicit replies. ;) > Smaller languages, which potentially could be a source of new words and grammar, are quickly dying out due to popularity of English. Icelandic didn't evolve much through last thousand of years because its speakers had little contact with speakers of other languages. English will do the same by simply eliminating other languages. Mainland Scandinavian languages have plenty of foreign borrowed words from decades ago, long before most people had a reason to know English (or Latin or French or). Today though English in particular should have penetrated Iceland as much as mainland Scandinavia, but Icelandic (according to Icelanders) has plenty of neologisms instead of loanwoards (apparently eschewing lame polysyllabic words like “helicopter”). Other Scandinavian languages (language communities) could have chosen the same route as they become more influenced by English than even somewhat mutually intelligible neighboring language communities. But they don’t. Proving that language communities can choose to take different routes even in an American Western World Order.