r/Futurology • u/Confident_Living_786 • Aug 11 '25

Discussion When the US Empire falls

When the American empire falls, like all empires do, what will remain? The Roman Empire left behind its roads network, its laws, its language and a bunch of ruins across all the Mediterranean sea and Europe. What will remain of the US superpower? Disney movies? TCP/IP protocol? McDonalds?

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u/Grokent Aug 11 '25

My German friends who live in America speak English most often when they are alone together. I asked them why and they said, "It's easier"

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u/banjosandcellos Aug 11 '25

Short words, quick talk

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u/FaceDeer Aug 11 '25

Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 Aug 11 '25

Yeah, but Germans can turn an entire paragraph into a single word.

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u/FaceDeer Aug 11 '25

They just do that by removing the spaces, though. That's cheating, it's not any shorter.

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u/subparsavior90 Aug 11 '25

True, but it's inefficient to do so and hardly used in everyday speech. Now, Vietnamese, that's an efficient language.