Daniel,
Thanks for your long and friendly response! You've
washed away some of my preconceptions of conlangers.
What path will English take in the future? It can't
get much simpler, and you've suggested that it may start acquiring inflexional
forms again. There's an essay by Cyril Babaev at the Cybalist site that suggests
the same thing - after a long trend towards fewer inflectional forms, we might
see languages invent new inflections.
Hakan