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| GauchoBoaCepa Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5420 days ago 172 posts - 199 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish | Message 1 of 5 24 June 2010 at 3:42pm | IP Logged |
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I'm aware that some members have come up with articles which show the importance of English around the world, but I find this one pretty interesting:
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/12/glob-ish.html# 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6012 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 2 of 5 25 June 2010 at 11:03am | IP Logged |
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What bugs me about all these articles is that the conflate the general idea of "Global English" with Nerrière's copyrighted money-machine, "Globish".
It bugs the hell out of me that Nerrière sat down and having done no research publishes an arbitrary (and incorrect) view of what this is, then gets all this free publicity, while all the academics who are genuinely trying to understand the language are struggling to get funding. Grrr.... 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5957 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 3 of 5 25 June 2010 at 6:38pm | IP Logged |
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Article is inaccurate with its predictions. The future is Cityspeak rather than "Globish" - I know this with certainty from watching the documentary Bladerunner:
Bladerunner - Cityspeak and other language issues Edited by Spanky on 25 June 2010 at 6:43pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| GauchoBoaCepa Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5420 days ago 172 posts - 199 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish | Message 4 of 5 26 June 2010 at 4:55am | IP Logged |
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Cityspeak is so........so.....rampant!....Blade Runner, bloody classic!...the noodle scene is really crazy.
It would puzzle me fully. Edited by GauchoBoaCepa on 26 June 2010 at 4:59am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5557 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 5 of 5 02 November 2010 at 7:53pm | IP Logged |
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Here's that noodle bar scene in Bladerunner where Gaff gives an example of futuristic cityspeak, and an interview with Edward James Olmos who played Gaff in the scene (others will know him as Commander Adama now ;) ) explaining how he came up with the lingo for the film and based it mainly on Hungarian. Edited by Teango on 02 November 2010 at 8:00pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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