Gramm838
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Sat on a bus in London today I was struck by the variety of languages I could hear, and it made me question whether, in a 100 years or so, we'll have developed a polyglot language across the connected world?
There will always be parts of the world that retain their own distinct language, but when I think back to when I was in the Army: nothing was free, it was buckshee; nothing was brand new, it was ganz neu; we didn't do laundry, we did dhobi; if you had a girlfriend, she was a bint - and a lot of those terms were used wherever in the world I served...and even in my home area of Newcastle, an older man is sometimes known as a gadje (which is a word with Persian roots I believe)
Maybe Esperantu wasn't so far off the mark after all?
There will always be parts of the world that retain their own distinct language, but when I think back to when I was in the Army: nothing was free, it was buckshee; nothing was brand new, it was ganz neu; we didn't do laundry, we did dhobi; if you had a girlfriend, she was a bint - and a lot of those terms were used wherever in the world I served...and even in my home area of Newcastle, an older man is sometimes known as a gadje (which is a word with Persian roots I believe)
Maybe Esperantu wasn't so far off the mark after all?