What will English language look like in the future?

Simon Horobin is Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. He has written extensively on the history, structure, and uses of the English language. He is the author of Does Spelling Matter? (OUP, 2013) and a number of books on the history of English, and the language of Chaucer.

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[shrektheswampless]

English has all cards to be the language of future.It's easy, It's spoken everywhere and the world needs a language that everyone can understand.
3 years ago, I went to switzerland, exactly in Zurigo, I only knew italian.There the main language is german, but everyone was able to speak english.There I understood the importance of english and Its utility, for traveling, work, fun and ecc.So I started learning It, using youtube, books and duolinguo.Thanks to the english I can communicate with people that don't speak my language; english is future because can unify the world.

[daniellbondad]

Makes me wonder when my dialect of Philippine English will be mutually unintellegible with the 'High' English dialects.Well, it is already considered a unique dialect and I'm guessing is around 15% mutually unintellegible.

[dennis]

I disagree million of people don’t speak Spanglish on a daily basic. Not to someone of a different race or ethnicity at least

[mep]

My english dialect is unique and thou knowest it xD