English is Chop Suey

30-50 years from now the English language will most probably be similar to the dish chopsuey.

Why? Because just like Chop Suey, the English language already has many variations, has ingredients that are different from each other yet delicious when mixed together. And just by tasting a spoonful of it, we would know that it is Chop Suey even if it loses a carrot.

Just like the British English, they erase the R's from their tongues, yet we understand it. We pronounce Tortoise as tortoise yet we hear no complaining sound.
And if by instance, an American pet shop owner, wants to sell a tortoise to a Filipino customer who pronounces the said pet as tortoise, surely, the seller won't utter a word and would just go with the flow, since selling it is the main priority. From here we can see how people adjust when it comes to personal survival. The pet shop owner would rather be ignorant than to lose a customer, who cares of standards when your business is at stake?

In Chop Suey we add pork to add flavor even though it is not a vegetable. Just like code mixing, there are over 30 different versions of code-mixing with English one of which is our very own Taglish. Different countries combine English with their own language because of their culture that can’t be expressed fully in English. Hence, new vocabulary is born, such as pinakbet, sinigang, sake and many more.
English has entered a mosh pit, where culture and economy merge yet fight each other, where language can never really be standard, and where change is always constant.


-wrote this for english class oral recitation. ^_^