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The Independent: English to be spoken by half of the world's population within 10 years

The Independent reports that by 2015, half of the world’s population will bespeaking Englishand that languages such as French will eventually fade away. What they don’t mention, and what I guess will happen, is that the English spoken by the world won’t be the English we know today. It will be a bastardized version of the language, influenced by technology (SMS, Email, etc) and the cultural melting-pot it will emanate from. I just hope the annoying habit of replacing the letter S with a Z in order to sound cool doesn’t make it into thisNeo English.

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Posted on 9th December 2004 Details

Banished Words List: 2005

The list ofbanished words for 2005. I would have nominated blogosphere but it’s already in there.

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Posted on 3rd January 2005 Details

Cá Bhfuil Na Gaeilg eoirí?...

Cá Bhfuil Na Gaeilg eoirí?

Linked on 7th January 2007 Details

“I think someone needs a bite of the reality sandw...

“I think someone needs a bite of the reality sandwich”

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Posted on 21st January 2010 Details

Deepl translator

Seems to work better than Google translate.

Linked on 16th April 2017 Details

Introducing the idea of ‘hyperobjects’

It’s like being inside the gigantic worm in The Empire Strikes Back. For a while, you can kid yourself that you’re not inside a gigantic worm, until it starts digesting you. Because the worm is “everywhere” in your field of vision, you can’t really tell the difference between it and the surface of the asteroid you think you landed on.

I really like this term "hyperobject" used to describe things you can mentally picture or think about but can't see as such. Like, for example, climate change.

Linked on 8th December 2019 Details