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"The English will be more extensively spoken than any other [language]. Russian will rank second".

 Please tell me more about Chinese and Spanish :)

crissindahouse said:
i would love to have a time machine, go back to 1911 to give someone a smartphone or tablet (working with internet from 2012). i believe they would think i'm god or so.


Fantastic way to get all the ladies!

 



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radishhead said:
How did these guys think that the letter C would be taken out of our alphabet? xD


Well if they were correct that English became a phonetic language C wouldn't be needed. They would use either a K or an S in place of the letter C.



Isn't it from 1901?



WiiBox3 said:
radishhead said:
How did these guys think that the letter C would be taken out of our alphabet? xD


Well if they were correct that English became a phonetic language C wouldn't be needed. They would use either a K or an S in place of the letter C.

How would you spell church then?



Boutros said:
Isn't it from 1901?


That would explain the absence of airplanes from the predictions.

 

Anyways those were pretty good compared to your average sci-fi enthusiast predictions from the 50's-70's, just a minority fell prey to futurehype. Pretty interesting the fact that, just as today, continent-wide or even worldwide form of governments are predicted to arise on the long term. Instead Africa is fragmenting by the day and even the European Union looks set to fail as far as a full economic union is concerned. 



 

 

 

 

 

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mantlepiecek said:
WiiBox3 said:
radishhead said:
How did these guys think that the letter C would be taken out of our alphabet? xD

Well if they were correct that English became a phonetic language C wouldn't be needed. They would use either a K or an S in place of the letter C.

How would you spell church then?

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