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People are Funny: The British

People all over the world believe that their country is the best in the world. TheEnglish pity these people because they live in an illusion. The English know thatEngland is the best country in the world. In fact, the English know that God is anEnglishman who speaks English with an Oxbridge accent. So, English is thelanguage of Shakespeare and God. That makes it the best language in the world. Itis clearly the best language in the world because people all over the world are

trying to learn it. Every Englishman wakes up each morning feeling blessed forspeaking English.

This explains why the English never bother to learn foreign languages. It would belike exchanging riches for poverty. The Oxford English Dictionary lists 500,000words. German has much less than half that amount of vocabulary, while the poorFrench exist on less than 100,000 words. Never mind that the average English-man knows and uses only 8,000 words. The other 492,000 are there if he needsthem. The Englishman knows that he is superior to the citizen of any othercountry. However, he is too "nice" to tell this to anyone. That would be rude. TheEnglish have a horror of offending anyone, especially inferior people. That wouldnot be nice, and being nice means hiding your superiority from others.


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Heres what I should have said

Globish yuzaz a simplifaid pranansiashan gaid

speling wich marjaz meny av tha vaeulz av

Inglish spich. Pipal spiking dhis speling dialect

cud bi andarstud bai adhar Inglish spikarz bat

der pranansiashan wud bi cansidard a litl auf.

What does this mean?


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Globish, cest quoi?

Jean-Paul Nerrire, brainchild of a former vice president of IBM. A neologistic Lite variant as LeGlobish.

Madhukar N Gogate designed a simplified version of English in 1998 using a subset of high-frequency vocabulary. In 2004, Nerriere copyrighted the idea and published a language bookentitled Parlez Globish.

English has too many words for non-native speakers (NNS).

It has more than French and German. There are over 600,000 + words in the OED. The numbergrows everyday.

It uses 1500 popular words taken from the Voice of America and other sources. Average nativespeaker uses 7500 a day

NNS outnumber native speakers by three to one, with one quarter of the worlds population - 1.5billion - speaking some form of English

Learners of English will hit 2 billion by 2020

Globish a portmanteau - is a toolto alloweverybodyto understand what everybody else issaying the world.

Most communications in English are between NNS Protect the French language Coca-Cola English


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Words

Nephew becomes son of my brother

Kitchen becomes the room in which you cook

your food. Chat when people speak casually to each

other.


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How do you learn?

It takes about 182 hours to learn, one day a week forsix months

Sentences limited to under 26 words.

Computer translation is easier - best possible machinetranslation.

NNS outnumber native speakers by three to one.

NNS are more comfortable with other NNS.

English is spoken in England. Globish is spoken in the

global village Mistakes are less important in Globish than in English.

What matters is communication


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Example 1

English

This erstwhile buddy of yours a weird duck

who will probably put the kibosh on all of ourgood ideas.



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Your old friend is

too strange. He

would ruin all our

efforts.


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Example 2

This little tidbit of literary joy is amiable and a

slam dunk to peruse, notwithstanding the fact

that it has the overwhelming gall to propose a

revamping of our methods of verbal exchange

around the world.



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Answer

This book is easy to read and with pleasure.

Still, it proposes a complete change in the way

we communicate around the world.


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Example 3

Globish Version

Our Father,

Who comes to us from above,

Your name is holy.

Your rule will soon be here,

Your will will be executed, in this world, and in the above as well, Give us today the food we need everyday, And forgive what we do wrong

As we will also forgive the other persons who do wrong to us,

Do not lead us to have bad desires,

But, free us from all that is evil,

For your are the ruler of the above, and yours are the power, and highest honour for ever and ever.

Amen.

What is the British English version?


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Answer

Our Father,

Who art in heaven,

Hallowed be Thy Name.

Thy Kingdom come.

Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory for ever and ever.

Amen.


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'Le dialecte plantaire du troisime

millnaire

Hybrid nouveau language, coined in 1998 by

Madhukar Gogate, uses a phonetic alphabet andsimplified spelling

E.G. Two fine cats quickly went to the city

Too faain kaets kwikli went tu thuh siti


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Still dunt want tu spik globish?

Why I a in a quandary

Rid the world of regional Englishes?

Maintain the standard of native speakers of

English from England, Canada, Australia,America and so on?

Protect and preserve the use of regional

English like Singlish, Japlish, Spanglish and so

on?


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Now its your time to practice

Read the below with your partner

"A bottle of bottled water held thirty little turtles.

It didn't matter that each turtle had to rattle ametal ladle in order to get a little bit of noodles, atotal turtle delicacy . . . The problem was thatthere were many turtle battles for less thanoodles of noodles. Every time they thought aboutgrappling with the haggler turtles their littleturtle minds boggled and they only caught a littlebit of noodles."


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Quel vhicule dexpression pour la

communication internationale? In preparation for this talk, I researched on World Englishes. I popped

search string English as an Asian language into google and received about1,380 hits. One of the researcher for a book aptly called World Englishesdid the same in May 2004 and received 112 hits. It seems English as anAsian language is becoming more interesting a subject matter for internetusers.

Courses in World Englishes are offered at Chukyo University (Nagoya,),University of Tamagawa (Tokyo), and Waseda University (Tokyo).

Chukyo University (Nagoya, Japan) has established a Division of World

Englishes as an academic unit

Matsuda (2002) suggests using the teaching of world Englishes to promoteinternational understanding


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Regional English examples

Bolton English

Scottish English To go to the messages = ?

maxandpaddy4.avi

andrewmarrscottishaccent.avi

corrry.avi


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Northern Irish English

to gunder = ?


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South Irish English

I do be drunk = ?


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Jamaican English

Dunny = ?


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Indian English

biodata = ?


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Bladerunner

End of British received pronunciation leads tothe mixing of languages and tongues and

ends up with strange outcomes.

From the film Bladerunner

Globish threatens to undermine Anglo-American linguistic dominance in the business

world Native speakers of English must learn globish

to communicate

bla unn f l u .avi


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Simplified globish

Lets see what the world is like is we learn

this simplified form of English, this new

dialect

a one & a two

yinyin_OUTPUT.mp3


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Globish test

Abraham Lincolns famous speech in Globish

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathersbrought forth on this continent a new nation,

conceived in liberty and dedicated to theproposition that all men are created equal [and]this nation under God shall have a new birth offreedom, and that government of the people, by

the people, for the people shall not perish fromthe earth.


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Globish?

This is the way to get the Americans to learn

another language

Unfortunately for Britons this is not a joke

h rrytheend.avi


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Dont be hung up about the Ls and Rs

be a Globiphone than an Anglophone

Lost in Translation

Obsession about purity

Lets see what the world is like when we worrythat we have a Japanese accent when we speakEnglish.

Dont be hung up about theLs and Rs

English is about communication, not purity ofprose or grammar

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