# Pomona; or, the future of English

Author: De Selincourt, Basil, 1876-1966

Genre: Category: Language & Communication

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73017

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Pomona%3B+or%2C+the+future+of+English+De+Selincourt&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Before discussing the future of English, one is forced, in the bustle of these scientific days, to inquire whether language itself has a future. “We are working”, wrote Mr. J. B. S. Haldane, in his brilliant little essay _Daedalus_, “towards a condition when any two persons on earth will be able to be completely present to one another in not more than a twenty-fourth of a second.” Is speech quick-moving enough to keep a place in such a picture? When everything else has learned the speed of lightning, will the transference of our thought be likely to lag behind and is it not a waste of time to ask if future generations will speak German, or Japanese, or Esperanto, when they may not need to...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pomona-or-the-future-of-english-73017/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pomona-or-the-future-of-english-73017/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pomona-or-the-future-of-english-73017/chapters/3/index.md)