In article <3ec5fb9a-b914-4189-8045-0674d9c35a39n@googlegroups.com>,
RichA <rander3128@gmail.com> wrote:
>What if they look at how language has evolved since the say the 1700s
>when industrialization began? Then try to extrapolate how language
>might evolve over the next 500 years. Use that in a scifi.

It's been done several times. The problem is that your audience has
to be able to understand things if the language itself isn't the point.

A decent handwave is that things change less since we have recordings
and a mass market in books. (Certainly regional accents are now
less pronounced).
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On Sunday, 24 April 2022 at 13:54:12 UTC-4, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <3ec5fb9a-b914-4189...@googlegroups.com>,
> RichA <rande...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >What if they look at how language has evolved since the say the 1700s
> >when industrialization began? Then try to extrapolate how language
> >might evolve over the next 500 years. Use that in a scifi.
>
> It's been done several times. The problem is that your audience has
> to be able to understand things if the language itself isn't the point.
>
> A decent handwave is that things change less since we have recordings
> and a mass market in books.

Or that they indeed are speaking a future dialect but it is presented in contemporary vernacular similar to how foreign (and alien!) languages are often presented as English in TV & movies.