Globish
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| Globish | ||
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| Created by | Jean-Paul Nerriere| 1998 | |
| Setting and usage | international auxiliary language | |
| Total speakers | — | |
| Category (purpose) | constructed language
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| Category (sources) | vocabulary from a list of 1500 English words, and grammar based on a subset of standard English grammar | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | art | |
| ISO 639-3 | – | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Globish is a subset of the English language formalized by Jean-Paul Nerriere.[1] It uses a subset of standard English grammar, and a list of 1500 English words. According to Nerriere it is "not a language" in and of itself,[2] but rather it is the common ground that non-native English speakers adopt in the context of international business.
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[edit] Origin and development of Globish
The term Globish was first used by M. N. Gogate in 1998.[3]
While serving as vice president of international marketing at IBM, Jean-Paul Nerriere first observed patterns that non-native English speakers used to communicate with each other in international conferences.[2][3] He later developed rules and training in the form of two books to help non-native English speakers better communicate with each other by using Globish as a lingua franca.[4]
[edit] Criticism
As for each auxiliar international language, also this has its criticism and there are some discussion about it.
- It is suspected of cultural imperialism, because it spreads only one culture and language from which the subset of words is taken: this criticism is often by the speakers of other "neutral" languages, meant as language not spoken in any nation. In fact, the English speakers are only a little part of the world population[5].
- Globish is not an economically free language. It is a registered trademark and some marketing is done with it, since its owner did not renounce to rights on it (as for example L.L. Zamenhof did), so it can be not well accepted that a second world language is a business for one person or more. Also, often it is said do be easier as it is in real, since it is trated as a "product to be sold".
- As semplification of English it is criticized for its pronunciation, not clear for not English natives. English has 38 phonemes: so much as 12 vowels and 24 consonants, and further 10 diphthongs should be added[6] often audible, understood and well pronounced only by native English speakers (with important differences according to the place where the each speaker was born).
- It is considered an "English for dummies" by people that should learn it. After learnt it, it is not possible to watch and understand a movie in English or, in general, to understand everything written or said in English. So it is felt to be in a certain sense frustrating, an English that made learners to "be used" for job, and not for free comunication of thinking.
- Globish requires people who already know standard English to "forget" many words and use only the 1,500 ones that are allowed; this is not always easy to do (expecially if Globish is not used everyday) and they could be attempted to use words taken from the standard English, to be more precise and expressive, so that it would be teorically not possible to be understood by a Globish speaker.
- Sometimes it is not well accepted by some native English speakers, who - except some dialogues in specific contexts abroad (talk with a taxi driver or with a seller) - are not always disposed to renounce to part of English lexicon, and sometimes feel such semplifications as some sort of "violence" against the language of Shakespeare.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Globish now the lingua franca of world travellers" The Australian, December 12, 2006.
- ^ a b "Parlez vous Globish? Probably, even if you don't know it", Toronto Star, March 7, 2009.
- ^ a b McCrum, Robert: "So, what's this Globish revolution?" The Observer, December 3, 2006.
- ^ "New lingua franca upsets French" BBC News, January 23, 2009.
- ^ http://www.cilalp.org/?article43#nh2
- ^ http://www.antimoon.com/how/pronunc-soundsipa.htm
[edit] External links
- Official international Globish site
- Official ebook about Globish: "Globish The World Over"- free sample chapters
- Interview with Jean-Paul Nerrière (author of Parlez Globish)
- Nerrière's Globish site
- Globish vocabulary (PDF) (1500 words; from Nerrière's site)
- Yvan Baptiste's site about Nerrière's Globish (in French; gives pronunciations for the 1500 words)
- Critical comments on Globish by Joachim Grzega in the article Globish and Basic Global English (BGE), published in the Journal for EuroLinguistiX
- So, what's this Globish revolution? Guardian Unlimited December 3, 2006
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