[etni] Re: Fw: The Language of the Global Village

Professor David Crystal, author of more than 50 books on English, says 350 
million Indians speak Hinglish as a second language, exceeding the number of 
native English speakers in Britain and the US.  Prof Crystal predicts that the 
growing popularity of Indian culture around the world, including Bollywood 
movies, means that Hinglish will soon become more widely spoken outside the 
continent. 'The word Hinglish' has been coined to refer to  a mixture of Hindi 
and English widely spoken in India.    Some of the Hinglish words in vogue 
include airdash (travel by air), chaddis (underpants), chai (Indian tea), crore 
(10 million), dacoit (thief), desi (local), dicky (boot), gora (white person), 
jungli (uncouth), lakh (100,000), lumpen (thug), optical (spectacles), prepone 
(bring forward), stepney (spare tyre) and would-be (fiancé or fiancée). 
  See full article at
  http://www.netvert.biz/articles/hinglish.html
   
  Shah 

Ask Etni <ask@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Phyllis Oded - phylliso@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: The Language of the Global Village

In response to your article about GLOBISH, I am sending you an unseen I 
prepared [quite a long time ago = 2002] on the subject.

http://www.etni.org/teachers/phyllis_oded/Language_of_Global_Village.doc

Yours, Phyllis Oded



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