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Discourse:  Overtime the designs of writing style might change, e.g. fonts

Phonology and orthography: It is highly likely that the manner is which many words are spelled. This might be a result of removal or addition of certain sounds in the alphabet.

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The semantics of esports is going to evolve. As gaming becomes more accessible and popular. The word "sport" will consider "esports" a legitimate sport. 

Morpho-syntax: an adoption of more simple sentences occurs more often in modern times through the use of voice and text. People tend to mimic the way they speech in their writing and due to the lack of complexity in day to day speech it has become more prominent. A drastic drop in books read by children has also happened which will lead to a decline in vocabulary. 
Phonetics: spelling will shift to mimic how words are pronounced to reduce discrepancies.
Discourse: writing will change and might lead to voice. By voice I mean podcasts, audiobooks etc.  

In the future I predict that English is going to become more standardised around the world, moving towards every English speaking country utilising American English. This has already been seen taking place in Britain and Australia with lexemes and expressions such as “cookie”, “to ring someone”, “couch potato” and “trash” and morphological changes such are the lack of a ‘u’ in “color” and the use of a ‘z’ in “organise” being used more and more often over local versions, particularly by young people. This change can be directly compared to the change English underwent between the 14 and 1500s with the arrival of the printing press to the UK. Most texts were printed in London, whose people spoke the East Midlands dialect and as a result, this dialect became the English we speak today. In our current society, most of the media we consume, whether that be books, TV, movies or social media content is produced in the United States, bringing with it, American English. 

There will be many factors that change the English language in an array of different ways in the future. One of the biggest factors will be the continued use of social media and the constant development of new words, meanings and sayings in the form of memes, challenges and even in general videos. This targets all that use social networking and hence allows for this expansion in use and popularity of these new lexis and definitions. 

There are many other key factors that could create new words and change old meanings such as the language used by the media to portray certain events, and how global politicians use language to convey their ideas. However, unlike social media and the internet, these factors could change English in terms of phonology, discourse and syntax as well. As people analyse the way that the media and politicians use language could result in a complete reshuffle and creation of new discourse features, pronunciations and syntactical structures. 

 

At the moment, discussion related to political correctness, progressivism and social justice is very popular, particularly amongst the younger generation, and with globalisation and the utility of the internet, many terms for this semantic field have already been coined in the recent years - eg. 'mansplaining'. This shows that the collective common vocabulary of a population will change according to relevant topics and everyday life, just like how some old customs or devices are no longer used, and their names have gone out of use as well. It's very possible that many of our current commonly-used words will become archaic or less relevant - just as a large portion of words do as time passes; though its worth noting that these words are unlikely to be completely lost due to data and information storage. On the other hand, words may change meaning or new words may be employed to give similar meaning with minor nuances, ie. synonyms, doublets.

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Orthography: Spelling in English and almost all other languages has become more standardized to accommodate for shared media and education. This occurred in the 1400s for English, due to many factors and influences such as the printing press and literature; whereas Mandarin Chinese was only officially standardized and effectively implemented recently, in the 1900s. It wouldn't be unusual if spelling were to continue in its standardization, especially to create consistency in spelling patterns and correlation to pronunciation. On the contrary, it's also possible that at the same time, while grammatical and spelling conventions are maintained in academic and professional settings, writing in messaging will simplify, change and vary, just as it already has. 

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