{"id":232,"date":"2006-12-11T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=232"},"modified":"2006-12-11T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T22:15:00","slug":"globish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/globish\/","title":{"rendered":"Globish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,3-2497567,00.html\">this article in The Times<\/a>, a French guy has come up with a subset of English for international communication which he calls <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Globish\">Globish<\/a><\/i>.  I&#8217;m not quite sure what the difference to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basic_English\">Basic English<\/a> is, though.<\/p>\n<p>There is a nice quote in the article: &#8220;He says that in multi-national meetings, Anglo-Saxons stand out as strange because they cling to their original language instead of using the elementary English adopted by colleagues from other countries.&#8221;  I&#8217;ve experienced this myself, and it&#8217;s very true!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this article in The Times, a French guy has come up with a subset of English for international communication which he calls Globish. I&#8217;m not quite sure what the difference to Basic English is, though. There is a nice quote in the article: &#8220;He says that in multi-national meetings, Anglo-Saxons stand out as strange because they cling to their original language instead of using the elementary English adopted by colleagues from other countries.&#8221; I&#8217;ve experienced this myself, and it&#8217;s very true!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}