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  1. Bear Ribs

    WI On January 20 1985 all Americans suddenly speak 'American'

    I suspect America will become much more isolationist. Not being able to understand what those crazy foreigners are saying will make it significantly easier for a lot of the less involved citizens to care, and for the news to ignore them as irrelevant. It will also make it easier to demonize...
  2. Bear Ribs

    WI On January 20 1985 all Americans suddenly speak 'American'

    Oh indeed, English was well entrenched but when every computer suddenly only works in American and computers make every imaginable business, especially in the booming science and tech fields, vastly superior to it's competition your options are going to be speak American or go out of business...
  3. Bear Ribs

    WI On January 20 1985 all Americans suddenly speak 'American'

    Assuming computerized records change alongside written ones, "American" becomes the new lingua franca. English was partly so dominant because of the widespread British Empire but in the modern day, it was cemented because the computer industry kicked off in the US and thus all the programming...
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