Posted: Dec 21, 2010 11:57 am
Saim wrote:Daan wrote:The emergence of the radio, television and internet is reversing the strictness of language and language becomes fluid again.
I think to a certain extent it is becoming less fluid, in that there is a tendency in many languages due to global media to move towards the prestige dialect. English is experiencing dialect leveling (a notable country being that in my home country of Australia, Australian slang is being replaced by American slang in younger generations).
Yes, you are right. The present global mass culture means that everything is Americanized. Maybe in a couple of decades it will be followed by a Chinese dominance. But, the ecological disaster might reverse the process.