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couring Beijing on a mission to wipe out all such traces of bad English
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Lisa StewartI wish we'd read this as a class when we were talking about Hawaiian Creole and Globish...
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An estimated 300 million Chinese — roughly equivalent to the total US population — read and write English but don't get enough quality spoken practice. The likely consequence of all this? In the future, more and more spoken English will sound increasingly like Chinese.
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in various parts of the region they tend not to turn vowels in unstressed syllables into neutral vowels. Instead of "har-muh-nee," it's "har-moh-nee." And the sounds that begin words like this and thing are often enunciated as the letters f, v, t, or d. In Singaporean English (known as Singlish), think is pronounced "tink," and theories is "tee-oh-rees."
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English will become more like Chinese in other ways, too. Some grammatical appendages unique to English (such as adding do or did to questions) will drop away, and our practice of not turning certain nouns into plurals will be ignored. Expect to be asked: "How many informations can your flash drive hold?" In Mandarin, Cantonese, and other tongues, sentences don't require subjects, which leads to phrases like this: "Our goalie not here yet, so give chance, can or not?"
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According to linguists, such words may introduce tone into other Asian-English hybrids.
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Chinglish will be more efficient than our version, doing away with word endings and the articles a, an, and the.
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dave sgonechinaGiven the number of people involved, Chinglish is destined to take on a life of its own.
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Willow TyrerThanks to globalization, the Allied victories in World War II, and American leadership in science and technology, English has become so successful across the world that it's escaping the boundaries of what we think it should be. In part, this is because t
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Julie Elmoredue to globalization that English is "escaping the boundaries" of what we think and know it to be. It references the changes that the Chinese made in preparation for the Olympics, ridding it's signs of "bad" English
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Tom MurphyBut what if these sentences aren't really bad English? What if they are evidence that the English language is happily leading an alternative lifestyle without us?
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brian rodneyThanks to globalization, the Allied victories in World War II, and American leadership in science and technology, English has become so successful across the world that it's escaping the boundaries of what we think it should be.
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Melonie Fullick...Yet anyone with some knowledge of (socio)linguistics has known this for ages. It's amazing the myths about language that are, well, believed by pretty much everyone (see every article I posted about FAS).
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Jeff MurphyEnglish is mingling with so many more local languages than Latin ever did, that it's on a path toward a global tongue — what's coming to be known as Panglish. Soon, when Americans travel abroad, one of the languages they'll have to learn may be their ow
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what if these sentences aren't really bad English? What if they are evidence that the English language is happily leading an alternative lifestyle without us?
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By 2020, native speakers will make up only 15 percent of the estimated 2 billion people who will be using or learning the language. Already, most conversations in English are between nonnative speakers who use it as a lingua franca.
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Ultimately, it's not that speakers will slide along a continuum, with "proper" language at one end and local English dialects on the other, as in countries where creoles are spoken. Nor will Chinglish replace native languages, as creoles sometimes do. It's that Chinglish will be just as proper as any other English on the planet.
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Ari RAn estimated 300 million Chinese read and write English but don't get enough quality spoken practice. The likely consequence of all this? In the future, more and more spoken English will sound increasingly like Chinese.
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07 Jul 08
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arcojediThe targeted offenses: if you are stolen, call the police at once. please omnivorously put the waste in garbage can. deformed man lavatory. For the past 18 months, teams of language police have been scouring Beijing on a mission to wipe out all such trace
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Gordon HerdPossible evolutionary directions of English.
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Joao FigueiredoAn estimated 300 million Chinese — roughly equivalent to the total US population — read and write English but don't get enough quality spoken practice. The likely consequence of all this? In the future, more and more spoken English will sound increasi
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rampion"if you are stolen, call the police at once. please omnivorously put the waste in garbage can. deformed man lavatory."
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Bill BrandonThis is scary. I'm glad I'll be dead before this comes completely to pass. I just hope my doctor and I can still communicate when the time comes.
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Doug AdamsBy 2020, native speakers will make up only 15 percent of the estimated 2 billion people who will be using or learning the language. Already, most conversations in English are between nonnative speakers who use it as a lingua franca. -- In the future, mor
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