A comment at Gene Expression has introduced me to a new term: “Globish“.
UPDATE: A relevant Language Log post.
July 29, 2010
Global lingua franca I hadn’t heard of before
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July 30, 2010 at 7:41 am
Reminds me of Simlish.
I’ve heard that more people speak Klingon than Navajo. How many more people ‘speak’ (or at least can improvise convincingly) Simlish?
July 30, 2010 at 7:51 am
It would have been nice if the Wikipedia article actually included a passage or two in Globish.
Peter
August 2, 2010 at 11:42 am
Globish reminds me of another failed project called “Basic English” which failed, because native English speakers could not remember which words not to use :)
So it’s time to move forward and adopt a neutral non-national language, taught universally in schools worldwide,in all nations. As a native English speaker, I would prefer Esperanto
Your readers may be interested in the following video at http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_YHALnLV9XU Professor Piron was a translator with the United Nations in Geneva.
A glimpse of Esperanto can be seen at http://www.lernu.net
August 2, 2010 at 7:41 pm
A list of words is here. A video of the creator speaking in and about Globish is here. Mark Liberman of Language Log doesn’t care for it.