Friday, April 22, 2005

France's Revenge

The latest addition to the world's languages - Globish. The invention of - who else - a Frenchman, Globish is essentially the formalized version of pidgin English, with a vocabulary of just 1,500 words.

Read the article.

Personally, I think the French are just getting back at us for replacing la langue de molière as the language of international diplomacy. Maybe for freedom fries, too.

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