Comments on: Globish, Technology, and the Plight of the Japanese Language http://www.hydramag.com/2010/04/10/globish-technology-and-the-plight-of-the-japanese-language/ Literary arts magazine dedicated to the wayward, ordinary, bizarre, everyday, and the impossible. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:35:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Brian Barker http://www.hydramag.com/2010/04/10/globish-technology-and-the-plight-of-the-japanese-language/#comment-2884 Brian Barker Sun, 11 Apr 2010 04:38:27 +0000 http://www.thehydramag.com/?p=4008#comment-2884 Globish reminds me of another project called "Basic English" Unfortunately this failed, because native English speakers could not remember which words not to use :) So it's time to move forward and adopt a neutral non-national language, taught universally in schools worldwide,in all nations. As a native English speaker, I would prefer Esperanto Your readers may be interested in the following video at http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_YHALnLV9XU Professor Piron was a translator with the United Nations in Geneva. A glimpse of Esperanto can be seen at http://www.lernu.net and at http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=es&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.delbarrio.eu%2F2006%2F09%2Fesa-bobada-de-globish.htm&sl=es&tl=en Globish reminds me of another project called “Basic English” Unfortunately this failed, because native English speakers could not remember which words not to use :)

So it’s time to move forward and adopt a neutral non-national language, taught universally in schools worldwide,in all nations.

As a native English speaker, I would prefer Esperanto

Your readers may be interested in the following video at http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_YHALnLV9XU Professor Piron was a translator with the United Nations in Geneva.

A glimpse of Esperanto can be seen at http://www.lernu.net and at http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=es&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.delbarrio.eu%2F2006%2F09%2Fesa-bobada-de-globish.htm&sl=es&tl=en

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