As part of their 75th birthday celebrations (congratulations!) the Dutch linguistic society ‘Genootschap Onze Taal‘ launched a kind of competition inviting people to share how they imagine dutch language to be in the future, time horizon: 2082. For the dutch-speaking readers among you, set your imagination in motion and give it a try.

It reminded me immediately of Michael Winterbottom’s unique scifi movie ‘Code 46‘ in which a future society is brought to life in very subtle ways. Instead of megabudget Hollywoodian visual effects, among other things the director played with the how language (e.g. vocabulary) could change under the influence of socio-cultural factors such as immigration, total surveillance, identity theft or technological ones such as biogenetics etc.

Thanks for the link Jan!

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