What will contemporary Standard American English look like 200 years from now? -

[Iwasamwillbe]

How would the grammar, vocabulary, syntax, etc. change? How would the spelling and pronunciation of words change? Would Standard American English evolve into a single new language, but with different dialects, or diverge into multiple entirely new and different languages - as sourced from the different dialects of the "classical"/standard language - all at once?

 

[The Pink Panther]

ay yo wuz good

 

[Wilhelm Bittrich]

 

[Kosher Dill]

Would Standard American English evolve into a single new language, but with different dialects

The needful has already been done.

 

[The Real Me]

Gizoogle.

 

[Coconut Gun]

Everything except NIGGER will be unrecognizable.

 

[Spooky Bones]

Literally closer to "mup da doo didda po mo gub bidda be dat tum muhfugen bix nood cof bin dub ho muhfugga" than we hope.

 

[Lone MacReady]

How cute, you think "America" or even the concept of "American" will still be around by then?

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

Going by how British English turned out as England centralized itself, it would probably sound like different variations of valley girl speak mixed with newscaster dialect due to the simple fact that it's how most corporate and professional class people speak and everything won't stop consolidating.

 

[NerdShamer]

We're already at Mexican > Hispanic > Latin > Latino/Chicano > Latina > Latinx/Latin@/Xhicano

 

[The Last Stand]

The same as it is now.

Only with more pronouns and changed meanings.

 

[Biden's Chosen]

Would be pretty racist if people were still using english. I hope decolonization is further on along by then.

 

[A Clockwork Soybean]

There probably won't be an English language at all by then, just an English based 'global trade dialect'. English speaking countries today probably won't exist either, they'll just be blobs on a map. If they have names at all, they'll just be variations of 'Airstrip One', Sector 042', ect.

 

[lurk_moar]

Bunch of emojis, textspeak, and wurds wood bee speeld kri8tivlee.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

While we're at it, let's add these ones.

 

[Unassuming Local Guy]

After the Great Division, in the People's Republic of America the official language will be Mandarin, strictly enforced and regulated. Everyone will speak properly and clearly in public. Colloquialisms will be punished. Behind closed doors, they will mostly speak a guttural, slurred mixture of Old Mexican, Old Highest and Most Exalted Language of the Brown and Black Bodies and Other Holy People of Non-Racist Status (OHMELBBBOHPNRS, formerly known as "ebonics", officially referred to as "voodoo speak" in government documents), and Mandarin. Those who run the country will be aware of this but allow it to continue so long as it doesn't affect productivity or national image.

In the United States Christian Democratic Fellowship, formerly known as The U.S. Coalition of Mountain States, everyone will talk like The Rich Texan from The Simpsons.

 

[Woke Capitalism]

It will look like Chinese.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

It will look like Chinese.

Depends if it'll be Mandarin or Cantonese. Time to sing that "classic" song.

 

[biozeminadae1]

Hopefully, the Slavs would have taken over by then.