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Globish: the worldwide dialect of the third millennium
- tokenadult 17y ago"Globish is not about the making of a 1500-word vocabulary, but about the way in which Indians, Chinese and many Africans are now turning to English as a liberating and modernising phenomenon (last year, the government of francophone Rwanda not only applied to join the British Commonwealth but also declared English to be the official language of the country)." Fascinating article. The use of English (in the form the author describes as "Globish") as a worldwide interlanguage is still growing very rapidly. After edit: This link from the submitted article http://www.jpn-globish.com/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=120 http://www.jpn-globish.com/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=120 is helpful as an example of what the author is describing.
- queensnake 17y agoYeah, get ready for English to lose its articles ('a/an', 'the'). Being exposed to Indians and Chinese I already find it's easy to leave them out. Damn you, Indians and Chinese.
- tokenadult 17y agoRussian (another Indo-European language) and Latin (the classical Indo-European language in the Romance branch of the language family) both do just fine without articles.