A picture speaks a thousand words! What a wonderful cartoon depicting the differences between Globish and the English language. We’d better practice for better cross-cultural communication.
Cartoon found at Minitrue
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A picture speaks a thousand words! What a wonderful cartoon depicting the differences between Globish and the English language. We’d better practice for better cross-cultural communication.
Cartoon found at Minitrue
English has become the World’s language – the means to communicate
across cultures. But, why and how has English made it’s way around the world? The main reason is that it has developed into “Globish” which is an overwhelmingly economic phenomenon. In a fascinating new book “Globish: How the English Language Became the World’s Language“, Robert McCrum offers a journalistic account which is both provocative and compelling of the rise of English and it’s impact on the world of economics, politics and culture.
Is this revolution a creature of globalization,” Robert McCrum asks, “or does global capitalism owe some of its energy and resilience to global English in all its manifestations, cultural as well as linguistic?
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