[etni] Fw: re: Dream or nightmare?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Candella Schorer" <candella@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 11:07 AM
Subject: RE: Dream or nightmare?


Dear Listers,

Having taken Latin in high school, I can honestly 
give a  definite yes to Bambi's Latin Club idea. 
Latin helped me  learn French and Spanish and 
gave me a tool to use when  faced with an English 
word I had never encountered before. I try to use 
this knowledge and teach the derivatives 
whenever the occasion arises. For example, 
suicide, genocide, regicide, fratricide, etc.

In reference to the article, thanks, because "globish" 
is a word that we will now be able to casually throw 
into conversations. I believe that we all speak it in 
some form or another, especially if we've been in 
Israel for a while. In hindsight, I remember the jokes 
in the States that incorporated Yiddish into English; 
they are probably the reason why so many Yiddish 
words have crept into everyday use.

Am I the only one who was struck by the thought 
that globish is only one letter short of globbish? 
Might this be a sad prediction about the future of 
English in both usage and content?  I certainly 
hope not, and will try to keep globish out of the 
classroom.  However, I do remember 
people in the States "having lived in a place a 
long distance"  and hearing my English speaking 
friends "planning to  sit on it".  Everyone in Israel 
meets for "a coffee" and  in the States they "do lunch".

Language evolves, but at what cost and what is our 
role in the evolution?


The article also settled another point for me. I have always 
wondered if our students speak Hinglish, Hebrish or Englew 
(Inglew). As Hinglish has been taken by the Hindi-English 
faction, thereby setting the standard of mother tongue first, 
I guess Hebrish it is.  Sounds a bit like gibberish, doesn't
it?


I am enclosing a cute work page for a bit of pre-Purim fun. 
http://www.etni.org/holidays/PurimSpiel2007.doc

It's a great way to teach the proper nouns and adjectives 
which relate to countries, native populations and languages.

Happy Purim!

Candella Schorer


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