I'm no professional linguist, but my understanding is that there is less variation in language now than there was a century or two ago. When travel and communi

I'm no professional linguist, but my understanding is that there is less variation in language now than there was a century or two ago. When travel and communication were more difficult, you did not see speakers across a nation using uniform language patterns as much as they do now. Not only that, numerous languages we had only a century or two ago have been replaced, and some predict "that 90% of the circa 7,000 languages currently spoken in the world will have become extinct by 2050." This is sad to me, as I would prefer the preservation of linguistic diversity. I'm pretty sure you have little reason to expect there will be an increase of nonstandard language patterns. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_language#Language_loss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_language#Language_loss