Re: Representing futuristic English

On 25 Aug 2005 07:17:00 -0700, <sigvald@xxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:1124979420.321387.275860@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
in rec.arts.sf.composition:

> Brian M. Scott wrote:

[...]

>> There's no doubt that even without such efforts, Icelandic
>> has changed more slowly than other western European
>> languages, but that's not really very surprising: you're
>> talking about a small and rather homogeneous population
>> subjected to much less external linguistic contact than
>> most.

> No, Iceland was a Danish colony until the early 20th
> century and all contact with authorities and all trade
> and other affairs were in foreign languages so the
> external linguistic contact was much greater than most.

I'm not sure that that's true in the relevant sense of
'contact', which is somewhat specialized, but I'd have to
know a great deal more about the details of the situation to
tell.

Brian
.

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