4 January 2025 - language decline

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2025 : 4 January 2025

The Technobabel Solution

Yesterday: Regional languages die out as big languages eat them. Today: AI translation means nobody has to speak International Standard Broken English. Tomorrow: AI learns everyone's idiolect and other idio-cees. In time: Everyone speaks a unique personal language, and nobody notices.

clue:

I'm not a good choice to write it as a story, but I encourage anyone to take the premise and run.

give me a clue so sweet and true