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Cool Breeze Posted 16 years ago
Linguistics Studies
Globish
Some of you may take an interest in this [url=http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/12/glob-ish.html] Newsweek article[/url] about the predominance of English in worldwide communication.
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Very interesting article, thanks. The problem is, I don't think a real "global language" is possible. We have different cultures, different habits, we live in different places, we are used to pronouncing different set of phonemes, we speak different first languages or different second languages.
- Very interesting article, thanks.
- The problem is, I don't think a real "global language" is possible.
- We have different cultures, different habits, we live in different places, we are used to pronouncing different set of phonemes, we speak different first languages or different second languages.
- So, I don't think you can go to China and expect to speak "English".
- They might not speak English, they might speak "Chinglish".
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Very interesting article, thanks.
The problem is, I don't think a real "global language" is possible. We have different cultures, different habits, we live in different places, we are used to pronouncing different set of phonemes, we speak different first languages or different second languages. So, I don't think you can go to China and expect to speak "English". They might not speak English
The problem is, I don't think a real "global language" is possible. We have different cultures, different habits, we live in different places, we are used to pronouncing different set of phonemes, we speak different first languages or different second languages. So, I don't think you can go to China and expect to speak "English". They might not speak English
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Cool BreezeSome of you may take an interest in this Newsweek article about the predominance of English in worldwide communication.Thanks for posting this, CB!!!
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CalifJimThanks for posting this, CB!!!You're welcome, Jim. I agree with Kooyeen, but the article isn't even trying to say that English might some day be "global" in the sense that it was spoken worldwide more or less perfectly by everybody and that the other languages would eventually disappear from the face of the earth. The article just describes the presen
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It reminded me of something that happened to me once.
I speak no Arabic, and a Moroccan I once met spoke no English, but we communicated rather effectively, we thought, in our badly broken French!
CJ
I speak no Arabic, and a Moroccan I once met spoke no English, but we communicated rather effectively, we thought, in our badly broken French!
CJ
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CalifJimI speak no Arabic, and a Moroccan I once met spoke no English, but we communicated rather effectively, we thought, in our badly broken French!A friend of mine toured Morocco in his caravan (?) a year go. (I'm not sure what the American word is for a vehicle like [url=]this.[/url] You can sleep, cook food and take a shower in it. He didn't know that pe
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