Yep. Which is in fact incredibly dystopian, to imply that the whole human race becomes primary English speakershttps://twitter.com/chriskenny233/status/816488846510661632 …
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What's interesting is if you isolate colonies for a couple of hundred years or so, you'd expect the language to diverge +
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+even with regular communication, it only took 100 years for American and British to become distinct. Maybe less.+
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+Lose communication for 20 years and you'd likely lose a little intelligibility. (See: Arabic, Spanish, French varieties).
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I still think it's great that Star Trek had an alien visit Scotland as a child and suddenly decide from that visit he wanted to be Scottish
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And becomes governor of an entire planet whose surface has been uniformly terraformed so it's all one big Scottish moor
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I want to forget this one.
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the clone/homesteader breeding episode? Man, that was a trip.
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There's also the TNG episode with the Irish immigrants.
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