Future English Brainstorming

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Travis B.
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Re: Future English Brainstorming

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Gareth3 wrote: Fri Jun 06, 2025 1:59 pm I don't know, but I think the guy speculating about it was English, and predicted using a /d/, so he was probably working off his own accent.
I am more used to glottalization of unstressed intervocalic /t/ in EngE myself.
Yaaludinuya siima d'at yiseka wohadetafa gaare.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
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Some ideas of my own:
-Diminutive in prefix /lɪl/-.
-"They" becomes the sole third-person pronoun, leaving first-person as the only person to distinguish number in pronouns. "We" and "I" subsequently shift to mean inclusive and exclusive, rather than plural and singular, respectively. New plurals are innovated in -z.
e.g. (with a normalised orthography and th-stopping):
SingularPlural
1.exaiaiz
1.in-wi
2yuyuz
3deideiz
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Emily
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similar thought i had was "they" becomes sole 3rd person pronoun, "you guys" is formalized as 2pl, then "-guys" is extended out to other persons:
I / weguys; you / youguys ; they / themguys (probably with /ŋ/ instead of /m/)
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Emily wrote: Sat Jun 07, 2025 2:23 pm similar thought i had was "they" becomes sole 3rd person pronoun, "you guys" is formalized as 2pl, then "-guys" is extended out to other persons:
I / weguys; you / youguys ; they / themguys (probably with /ŋ/ instead of /m/)
I have caught myself using we guys as a 1st person inclusive plural, actually.
Yaaludinuya siima d'at yiseka wohadetafa gaare.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
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Re: Future English Brainstorming

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I've been hearing ⟨you'll⟩ in my dialect for the second person plural, perhaps with some kind of shwa sound. I could imagine it evolving into something like this:
SingularPlural
1ɒiwi
2yuyəl
3deidel
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