https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf A long time ago I remember reading Stephen Pinker discussing the evolution of language. I had read Beowulf , Chaucer and Shakespeare , so I was quite interested in these linguistic adaptations over time. Language shifts rapidly through the ages, to the point that even English of 500 years ago sounds foreign to us now. His thesis in the piece was about how language is going to shift toward the Chinese pronunciation of it. Essentially, the majority of speakers will determine the rules of the language’s direction. There are more Chinese in the world than native English speakers, so as they adopt and adapt the language, more of us will speak like the greater factions of our language’s custodians. The future speakers of English, will determine its course. By force of "majority rules", language will go in the direction of its greatest use, which will be the Pangea of the global populace seeking common...
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