If You Can’t Master English, Try Globish
PARIS — It happens all the time: during an airport delay the man to the left, a Korean perhaps, starts talking to the
man opposite, who might be Colombian, and soon they are chatting away in what seems to be English. But the native
English speaker sitting between them cannot understand a word.
They don’t know it, but the Korean and the Colombian are speaking Globish, the latest addition to the 6,800
languages that are said to be spoken across the world. Not that its inventor, Jean-Paul Nerrière, considers it a proper
language.
“It is not a language, it is a tool,” he says. “A language is the vehicle of a culture. Globish doesn’t want to be that at
all. It is a means of communication.”
Nerrière doesn’t see Globish in the same light as utopian efforts such as Kosmos, Volapuk, Novial or staunch
Esperanto. Nor should it be confused with barbaric Algol (for Algorithmic language). It is a sort of English lite: a means
of simplifying the language and giving it rules so it can be understood by all.
BLUME, M. Disponível em: www.nytimes.com. Acesso em: 28 out. 2013 (fragmento).
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