My theory is that English will eventually become what will be known as Galactic Common, and local dialects and languages will flourish and continue to evolve as long as discrete populations exist to support them. You're seeing it now, it's the International Space Station but all the dials are in English, except it's not regular English it's nerd-English so it's already starting to mutate. Seriously though we need to have the buttons labelled correctly and English has a giant leg up on that race.
We can blame Douglas Adams all we want but his invention actually prolongs separate languages among the same species. If you have a universal translator that you can talk to in your own language; why bother learning whatever. Your own street signs are in Gringolog which is great cause everyone always spoke it here and with GalGoogTranslator you can keep using it and everyone will understand your grobledywooks and spizzleworls.
Mandarin is going to die out though cause it's stupid.
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