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April 26, 2005
Parlez Vous Globish?
We're hard at work on the book but I thought I would take a break to share this International Herald Tribune article with you (thanks for the link Randall!).
"It happens all the time: during an airport delay the man to the left, a Korean perhaps, starts talking to the man opposite, who might be Colombian, and soon they are chatting away in what seems to be English. But the native English speaker sitting between them cannot understand a word.
They don't know it, but the Korean and the Colombian are speaking Globish, the latest addition to the 6,800 languages that are said to be spoken across the world. Not that its inventor, Jean-Paul Nerrière, considers it a proper language."
Read the rest of the story here.
And here's the Globish website (in French)
Posted by insideoutmag at April 26, 2005 09:27 AM