VYAKARAN: South Asian Languages and Linguistics Net
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2339"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2351"><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2356"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1825 yiv3985163476ms__id1833" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2355" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'><font id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2354" size="3">****************************************************************</font></span></b></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_3228"><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_3227"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1826 yiv3985163476ms__id1834" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_3226" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'><font id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_3225" size="3">How
about Globish ? (You may circulate, comment) Thanks. 26 March 2014</font></span></b></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_3677"><b><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1827 yiv3985163476ms__id1835" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'><font size="3"><br></font></span></b></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_3098"><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_3097"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1828 yiv3985163476ms__id1836" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_3096" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'><font id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_3095" size="3">I understand that English is a compulsory second language in most</font></span></b></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2399"><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2398"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1829
yiv3985163476ms__id1837" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2397" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'><font id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2396" size="3">countries in Europe. Note below is about situation in France,
source</font></span></b></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2403"><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2402"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1830 yiv3985163476ms__id1838" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2401" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'><font id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2400" size="3">is mentioned. It looks pretty difficult to rectify current illogical</font></span></b></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2550"><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2549"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1831 yiv3985163476ms__id1839" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2548" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'><font id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2547" size="3">spellings in English. Huge investment has been made by even the</font></span></b></div><div
id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2895"><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2898"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1832 yiv3985163476ms__id1840" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2897" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'><font id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2896" size="3">non-English </font></span></b><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2553"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1833 yiv3985163476ms__id1841" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2552" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'><font id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2551" size="3">countries, to study English, so they may oppose any </font></span></b></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2900"><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2909"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1834 yiv3985163476ms__id1842"
id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2908" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'><font id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2907" size="3">spelling reforms.</font> </span></b><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2797"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1835 yiv3985163476ms__id1843" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2796" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'>Reform may take place, only as a popular movement,</span></b></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2904"><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2906"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1836 yiv3985163476ms__id1844" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2905" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'>if no further </span></b><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2795"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1837 yiv3985163476ms__id1845"
id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2794" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'>investment is required to alter all kinds of machines, </span></b></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2910"><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2912"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1838 yiv3985163476ms__id1846" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2911" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'>many of them are </span></b><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2792"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1839 yiv3985163476ms__id1847" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2791" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'>without diacritical marks. People do not want perfect</span></b></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2913"><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2915"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1840
yiv3985163476ms__id1848" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2914" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'>but
heavy script</span></b><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2642"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1841 yiv3985163476ms__id1849" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2641" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'>, they want something easy to adopt, like 1 ft = 30 cm</span></b></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2643"><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2649"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1842 yiv3985163476ms__id1850" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2648" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'>(not 30.48 cm at scientific level). Till Unicode arrived, many people</span></b></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2740"><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2739"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1843 yiv3985163476ms__id1851" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2738" style='color: black;
font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'>in India
used Roman script for emails in their languages. So depend</span></b></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2743"><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2742"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1844 yiv3985163476ms__id1852" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2741" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'>on public enthusiasm, their convenience, to develop a parallel</span></b></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2790"><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2845"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1845 yiv3985163476ms__id1853" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2844" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'>English (which may be called Globish). Let (Brick, Bridge, Health, Right)</span></b></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2976"><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2975"><span
class="yiv3985163476ms__id1846 yiv3985163476ms__id1854" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2974" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'>continue in English, they will be (brik, brij, helth, raait) in Globish.</span></b></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_3036"><b><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1847 yiv3985163476ms__id1855" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'></span></b><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2979"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1848 yiv3985163476ms__id1856" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2978" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'>Refer E01 and </span></b><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2971"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1849 yiv3985163476ms__id1857" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2970" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'>note (e) on index page
of (<a id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2973" href="http://www.mngogate.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.mngogate.com/</a>) -- MNG</span></b></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2395"><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_3534"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1850 yiv3985163476ms__id1858" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_3533" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'><font id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_3532" size="3">Note.</font></span></b></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2647"><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2646"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1851 yiv3985163476ms__id1859" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2645" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";'><font id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2644" size="3">Growing domination of English language
in
France<span> </span><span> </span></font></span></b><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1852 yiv3985163476ms__id1860" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2353" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;'>(Source<span> </span>BBC 8 Feb 2007 )</span></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2339"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_3038"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1854 yiv3985163476ms__id1862" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_3037" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>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 id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2339"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_3603"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1856 yiv3985163476ms__id1864" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_6359" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>"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 id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2339"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2342"><b id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2341"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1858
yiv3985163476ms__id1866" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2340" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>English e-mails</span></b><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1859 yiv3985163476ms__id1867" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> </span></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2339"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2344"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1861 yiv3985163476ms__id1869" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2343" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>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 id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2339"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_3233"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1863 yiv3985163476ms__id1871" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_3237" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>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 id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_3281"><span class="yiv3985163476ms__id1864 yiv3985163476ms__id1872" id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_3282" style='color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>***********************************************************************</span></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2339"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_3234" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_2339"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></div><div id="yiv3985163476yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395805014521_6353"></div></div></div></div><div
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