Feb 21 2009

Globishisation

There are a lot of commentators around at the moment, blaming a lot of the world’s ills on ‘globalisation’. Perhaps they are right, but does it end there?

A few weeks’ ago, someone called Paolo left a comment on this blog which brought a new language called Globish to my attention. It just goes to show: just because an editor’s paranoid doesn’t mean that there isn’t a conspiracy to stop us all from understanding the words.

But then take a closer look at the Globish site. Globish turns out to be one man’s vision of the plainest English possible. › Continue reading