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# Doltish
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/1807/
- Published: 2005-07-24T23:00:56.000Z
- Updated: 2005-07-24T23:00:56.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Culture, #wpChunk

Two linquistic innovators have invented a type of Pig-English. It's called "Globish," and it's meant to provide a simplified form of English as the world's *lingua franca*. [Link](http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/universal-english-has-a-name--globish/2005/07/24/1122143730120.html?oneclick=true&ref=thedailyeudemon.com) (registration required). Excerpts:

> In the 20th century English spread across the globe, partly on the back of American films, songs and popular culture. This has prompted resentment among some, particularly the French.

> So the publication about a year ago by a retired French computer engineer, Jean-Paul Nerrière, of a book called *Don't Speak English - Parlez Globish* was met with some dismay in his own country.

> His Globish is essentially a stripped-down, simplified form of English with a vocabulary of just 1500 words.

> A few years earlier, another engineer, Indian Madhukar Gogate, put forward his own proposal to iron out English spelling and pronunciation irregularities in a form that non-native speakers might more easily understand.

> A Melbourne University linguistics professor, Michael Clyne, said such efforts were doomed, because English in various forms had already established itself as the international means of communication.

> He said that although English was widely used, it often took a form that native speakers of English had difficulty understanding because they were usually monolingual and did not understand how another speaker might pronounce the language.