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still having six.more.hours.of.work, after having been here since 4 this afternoon, and having been awake since 9:30 this morning, AND having it be busier than holy fuck? sucks like a hoover.

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still having six.more.hours.of.work, after having been here since 4 this afternoon, and having been awake since 9:30 this morning, AND having it be busier than holy fuck? sucks like a hoover.

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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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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