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Dec. 23rd, 2012
Sunday language linkage.
Dec. 23rd, 2012 07:03 pmEnglish as Lingua Franca on the Net - BBC magazine.
Response (and a closer discussion of Pidgins and Creoles) at the Economist with the most wonderful headline Im in ur internets, creolizin ur english though the text will tell you that in fact this is not happening.
We might be simplifying grammar and introducing new terms - I'm waiting for the Denglish Beamer for video projector to make its way into international conference talk and thus into English.
Another Year in Words list over at Collins dictionaries which starts with broga (new to me) and ends with fiscal cliff.
And now a link that is not only interesting for the story it reports (Not clearly enunciating means you could lose lots of money on a game show), but also because it uses a variation of the term grammar Nazi - pronunciation Nazi. I try to avoid making up new Nazi varieties as I think it's rather inappropriate.
Have you ever wondered about Uncle Sam as the embodiment of the United States?
It's 200 years old today - which I know thanks to another Wordroutes column.
Response (and a closer discussion of Pidgins and Creoles) at the Economist with the most wonderful headline Im in ur internets, creolizin ur english though the text will tell you that in fact this is not happening.
We might be simplifying grammar and introducing new terms - I'm waiting for the Denglish Beamer for video projector to make its way into international conference talk and thus into English.
Another Year in Words list over at Collins dictionaries which starts with broga (new to me) and ends with fiscal cliff.
And now a link that is not only interesting for the story it reports (Not clearly enunciating means you could lose lots of money on a game show), but also because it uses a variation of the term grammar Nazi - pronunciation Nazi. I try to avoid making up new Nazi varieties as I think it's rather inappropriate.
Have you ever wondered about Uncle Sam as the embodiment of the United States?
It's 200 years old today - which I know thanks to another Wordroutes column.