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<div><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><font size="3">How
about Globish ? (You may circulate, comment) Thanks. 26 March 2014</font></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><font size="3"><br></font></span></b></div><div>
<b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><font size="3">I understand that English is a compulsory second language in most</font></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><font size="3">countries in Europe. Note below is about situation in France,
source</font></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><font size="3">is mentioned. It looks pretty difficult to rectify current illogical</font></span></b></div><div>
<b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><font size="3">spellings in English. Huge investment has been made by even the</font></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><font size="3">non-English </font></span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><font size="3">countries, to study English, so they may oppose any </font></span></b></div>
<div><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><font size="3">spelling reforms.</font> </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Reform may take place, only as a popular movement,</span></b></div>
<div><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">if no further </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">investment is required to alter all kinds of machines, </span></b></div>
<div><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">many of them are </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">without diacritical marks. People do not want perfect</span></b></div>
<div><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">but
heavy script</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">, they want something easy to adopt, like 1 ft = 30 cm</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">(not 30.48 cm at scientific level). Till Unicode arrived, many people</span></b></div>
<div><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">in India
used Roman script for emails in their languages. So depend</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">on public enthusiasm, their convenience, to develop a parallel</span></b></div>
<div><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">English (which may be called Globish). Let (Brick, Bridge, Health, Right)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">continue in English, they will be (brik, brij, helth, raait) in Globish.</span></b></div>
<div><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""></span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Refer E01 and </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">note (e) on index page
of (<a href="http://www.mngogate.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.mngogate.com/</a>) -- MNG</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><font size="3">Note.</font></span></b></div>
<div><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><font size="3">Growing domination of English language
in
France<span> </span><span> </span></font></span></b><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">(Source<span> </span>BBC 8 Feb 2007 )</span></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></div>
<div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">A group of trades unions and language lobbyists say the French language is being reduced to a local dialect. One campaigner has dubbed the battle to preserve the supremacy of the French language as a fight against "linguistic hegemony" of English.
</span></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">"We can no longer tolerate this," said Albert Salon, president of the French-speaking campaigning group, Forum Francophone International. "We are not against influences of one language by another, or the occasional borrowing of words, but now there is a wholesale substitution of the French language for English." </span></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></div><div><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">English e-mails</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">He said in many companies it had become standard practice for native French speakers to use English even among themselves and French scientists were forced to publish their research, in English, in leading US journals. "We have nothing against the Brits or the
Americans," Mr Salon said. "But we simply cannot accept that
our language is reduced to a local dialect - we are protesting against this linguistic hegemony!". </span></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">A recent survey showed that seven percent of French firms used English as their main language and multinational companies often sent e-mails in English to their French employees. But Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, CEO and founder of French site Priceminister.com, accepts that having English as a global business language enables him to converse with foreign colleagues in a common tongue. "Some things are facts and you can't fight against them," Mr Kosciusko-Morizet said. "We can promote French
but I don't
see very efficient ways of fighting English. English didn't become the global language of business by fighting other languages," he added. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">***********************************************************************</span></div>
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