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Language Trends Of The Future
German To English
Russia Renamed

LANGUAGE TRENDS OF THE FUTURE

There are consistent trends in the past evolution of languages, and in all likelihood they will continue to change in the same fashion in the future.

In 200 years, spoken French will have only one sound, a vowel. All consonants and gaps between words and sentences will disappear, leaving only an extended "Eauuuuuuuuuuuu..." Meaning will be inferred from facial expression. Written French will stay exactly the same.

These consonants will not be entirely forgotten; they will migrate to Czechoslovakia, which will by that time have no use for vowels.

In 200 years, the English vocabulary will be the union of all other vocabularies, but the spelling will be original.

Similarly, the Japanese alphabet will be the union of all other alphabets in the world.

The Cyrillic alphabet will eventually be the same as the Latin alphabet, only backwards. A mirror will suffice for translating Russian into Polish.

Finally, in 200 years, entire books in Germany will be one word. Plus a verb at the end, of course.

GERMAN TO ENGLISH

Some useful terms;

Fahrfrompoopin - constipated

Fahrfromthinking - dumb blonde

Flippenflappenmudschlappen - windshield wipers

Gutenteit - virgin

Shlappinweinerschnitzel - masturbation

Shtopemfrumflopen - bra

Stoppentitzenfloppen - bra

Wienerschleider - vaseline

RUSSIA RENAMED

MOSCOW, BATSHITZANIA--With political turmoil and economic chaos threatening to tear the nation apart, Russia's parliament voted unanimously Monday to rename the crumbling former superpower "Batshitzania." "We felt a new name was in order to suit our new identity," said acting Batshitzanian prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, standing atop a burning Kremlin. "Citizens are frantically trying to get rid of their worthless rubles, our nuclear weapons are sitting unguarded in abandoned silos, and the mentally unstable Boris Yeltsin, who is scheduled to undergo octuple-bypass surgery next week, refuses to step down. Basically, everything's going bat-shit zany over here."

Other names considered for the collapsing nation include Kabloomia, Dystopskia and Hell.