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 #1 (permalink) Tue Apr 08, 2008 9:38 am Panglish |
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Hi,
How do you react to this:
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It is English but not as we know it.
A new global tongue called "Panglish" is expected to take over in the decades ahead, experts say.
Linguists say the language of Shakespeare and Dickens is evolving into a new, simplified form of English which will be spoken by billions of people around the world.
The changes are not being driven by Britons, Americans or Australians, but the growing number of people who speak English as a second language, New Scientist reports.
According to linguists, Panglish will be similar to the versions of English used by non-native speakers. As the new language takes over, "the" will become "ze", "friend" will be "frien" and the phrase "he talks" will become "he talk".
By 2010 around two billion people - or a third of the world's population - will speak English as a second language. In contrast, just 350 million people will speak it as a first language.
Most interactions in English now take place between non-English speakers, according to Dr Jurgen Beneke of the University of Hildesheim, Germany. |
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| #2 (permalink) Tue Apr 08, 2008 9:53 am Panglish |
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Hello,
An interesting article indeed. I attribute this 'phenomenon' to people's lack of interest in terms of studying, literating themselves, and, of course, the growing number of Internet communities where 'Panglish' is a common way of expression, displacing English norms.
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| #3 (permalink) Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:00 am Panglish |
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Please. Alan, don't be so ethnocentric.
Many times, it's lack of funds and time which brings about such a situation. |
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| #4 (permalink) Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:37 am Panglish |
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Hi,
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| Pleae. Alan, don't be so ethnocentric. |
Who? Me?
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| #5 (permalink) Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:45 am Panglish |
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¡Tu!
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| #6 (permalink) Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:14 am Panglish |
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Moi?
But I haven't said anything yet!
Alan
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Hello,
An interesting article indeed. I attribute this 'phenomenon' to people's lack of interest in terms of studying, literating themselves, and, of course, the growing number of Internet communities where 'Panglish' is a common way of expression, displacing English norms.
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| #7 (permalink) Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:02 am Panglish |
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Dr Jurgen Beneke is wrong when he says that most interactions in English take place between non-English speakers. The average ESL speaker uses their native language most of the time. Let's say you are Chinese. Whom do you interact with most of the time? With other citizens of China of course. Now, do most citizens of China speak English with each other most of the time? Of course not. Do Americans and Britons speak English with each other most of time? Of course they do. So how many 'interactions' take place in English between non-native speakers of English?
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| #8 (permalink) Thu Apr 10, 2008 16:02 pm Panglish |
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Dr Jurgen Beneke is wrong when he says that most interactions in English take place between non-English speakers.
I think he meant "of those who do not speak the same L1, most interactions in English take place between non-English speakers.". |
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| #9 (permalink) Fri Apr 11, 2008 21:10 pm Panglish |
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Hi,
what would you think if you receive a post with a subject line sounding: easy to reach meds here now for cheap@.........?
Is this some kind of Panglish?
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