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GGirardi - Dal Konglish all'Hinglish (quotidiano "La Repubblica")
by GGirardi - (2012-12-17)
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Nowadays most of those who surf the net, use English as a vehicular language: English is the medium which allows everybody to keep in touch, exchange information of files and interactions.

 Of course web English is totally different from the pleasant sounds of the English of BBC, since it carries with it all the different contributions of the different languages surfer's speak.

 

This situation seems to transform the semantically rich code of Great Britain and reduce it to a very poor vocabulary most of the times not of easy access to English speaker.

This "new language" is called broken English or Globish which is less complicated than the traditional English. There are many different broken English: Singlish comes from Singapore, Konglish comes from Korea, Hinglish comes from India and Spanglish comes from Spain and Latin America. This derivation from English change the spelling and the means of the normal English words.

 

A statistics tells us that on the web 1.000.000.000 people speak English as a second language and the 54,9% of website are written in English. This mean that English is spread all over the world.

Dispite that  people need to simplify the English language to create a language easily assimilated. This language is spread by communication, business, economy and of course by the conversation on the net.