Re. Countdown – surprised Channel 4 pulled this – thought they were more open-minded than that.
And anyway, what’s even more incredible is that the Cambridge University chap didn’t go all out for the far more common, 9-letter adjective describing a state of drunkenness…
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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.
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Re. Countdown – surprised Channel 4 pulled this – thought they were more open-minded than that.
And anyway, what’s even more incredible is that the Cambridge University chap didn’t go all out for the far more common, 9-letter adjective describing a state of drunkenness…
[…] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Ian and CEOLA & YOUNG , M.Pì. M.Pì said: Language and words in the news – 12th November, 2010 | Macmillan http://t.co/RSeysln via @AddThis […]
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