- [[Languages]] [[Natural Language Processing]] [[Linguistics]] [[Computational Linguistics]] - Date Created: [[2020-10-01]] - Source: [[What Will the English Language Be Like in 100 Years]] - An interlanguage is a mixture of two or more languages, used to such an extent that the resulting speech is a language in itself. - Spanglish, Taglish, and Singlish are examples of interlanguages, born out of a need to balance native languages with the dominance of English. - Interlanguages also come with some negative connotation, in that they are often seen as a less educated way to speak. However, this view is unnecessarily restrictive: most languages are interlanguages today. - This generation's interlanguages include an increased focus on abbreviation, a relaxing of grammatical rules, and pictograms (emojis). - "`In the online world, attitudes to consistency and correctness are considerably more relaxed: variant spellings are accepted and punctuation marks omitted, or repurposed to convey a range of attitudes. Research has shown that in electronic discourse exclamation marks can carry a range of exclamatory functions, including apologising, challenging, thanking, agreeing, and showing solidarity. Capital letters are used to show anger, misspellings convey humour and establish group identity, and smiley-faces or emoticons express a range of reactions. `" - "`Some have questioned whether the increasing development and adoption of emoji pictograms, which allow speakers to communicate without the need for language, mean that we will cease to communicate in English at all? ;-) `" -