Quote:
After all, if Globish really does take over the planet with its stunted business-speak, its bland insignificance, its cultureless access-for-all availability, then where does that leave the real English?
Will the language of Shakespeare suffer by association, leaving the field open one day for the resurgence of the other great tongues of the world ? Like French?
|
ha HA !!! it is a cunning ploy of the académie to turn the tables !! we will now bastardise english into oblivion, so that french can rise again as the most beautiful and poetic language in the world !
but seriously, it really does drive me crazy when, for example, the french women working at the french agency
in france tell me to please use "boollette poynz" (bullet points) on the list in that document i'm designing for them.
i want to shout at them (in french, of course) "for god's sake, they're called
puces !!!! you sound like a bunch of pretentious morons !!!!"
it also drives me crazy when i see big companies with french branches sending over american executives in high-level positions who don't even make a pretense of learning to speak french, and oblige the entire damned company of french employees
in france to speak english to accomodate them. in a way they can't complain about globish ; they've really asked for it.
on the other hand, it also drives me crazy when i hear english spoken / written by native anglophones who are apparently practically illiterate and have no idea what punctuation is.
i guess i'm sort of a purist, regardless the language.
vive l'éloquence !