Perhaps the English of tomorrow will look as much like today’s English as Chaucer looked like Beowulf.
The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel.I’ve found several articles on the notion, but they are unclear about what is happening today with World English and how that relates to what happened after 1066. I do wonder whether in today’s world of English becoming the lingua anglica of common communication as French gave rise to the lingua franca of yesteryear, such a creolization might not be recurring, at least in certain places with a dominant alternate language, such as in India or Singapore. Related musings of my own that I don’t expect answers for follow. Was it such, and if so, which one was it: a creole or pidgin? If so, when did it stop being such - or didn’t it stop being such? Because Middle English was a hodgepodge mélange of Old English (a Germanic tongue) and Norman French (a Romance language), it seems like Middle English was actually a kind of pidgin or creole.
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