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[somedaybitch]

wtf is IT with these people? the language is not that fucking complicated.

Hmmm... well, I'm seeing in this article that "chat" is another one of the words that Iran saw the need to ban. I think the kind of crisp short words used in web-writing are going to spread and people won't confine themselves to a tedious word list that requires them to construct clunky phrases containing boring filler like "in which." There will be some sort of global English, but I think it's likely to be, not Nerrière's 1,500 building blocks, but the kind of clear, straightforward English found that makes for good blog writing. And you can write real literature in this language. Man, Nerrière annoys me. His vision of the future is no fun at all. It's infuriatingly dessicated! Or should I say it is so dry it makes me mad.

eta: ahhhhhhh, could this be the key:

“Globish is not a language, it will never have a literature, it does not aim at conveying a culture, values,” Mr. Nerrière wrote in an e-mail message. “Globish is just a tool, practical, efficient, limited on purpose

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[simplystars.livejournal.com]

i have two words for the proposal and its proponents: remember esperanto?

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of course not. because it never caught on.

if english becomes global enough, there will *already* be a basic lexicon in place. no assembly required. :-|

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

there you go with that wacky earth logic

[lvp3.livejournal.com]

Globish is just a tool, practical, efficient,

so wait...that's not a good thing? *rolls eyes*

[fialka.livejournal.com]

The typical conversation in Globish could be grating to a native speaker, but get the job done between, say, a Kenyan and a Korean trying to navigate a business deal or asking for help at the airport check-in. For nephew, there is “son of my brother/sister”; kitchen is “room in which you cook your food”; chat is “speak casually to each other.”

Hello, I am stopping by your personally updatable webpage to add my brief opinion to your short but informative text including a connection to an interesting item of note on another page of the Internet, although I have nothing of interest to say myself. Hopefully, we can speak casually to each other in a face-to-face manner sometime in the coming months, if I collect enough of the paper which allows the buying of things to exhange this paper for a passage on a large airborne container carrying many people to distant places.

Oh yes, because that's practical and efficient language. ::eyeroll::

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

*snorts*

that was brilliant.