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ENGLISH AS A WORLD LANGUAGE

English is the most global of languages. Products are considered to be more exciting if they carry English messages even if the

message does not have a lot of sense.

What is perhaps most worrying is that these meaningless phrases on clothing andproducts are invading the English- speaking world.

Examples of English- based creoles in the world:Krio: Sierra Leone

Neo- Melanesian: Papita New Guinea

Number of English speakers in the worldNative speakers: 330 million

English is spoken as an official language in more countries (forty four) English is the language most important in the world. Lot of activities are done in this

language such as: business deals, mails, television programmes.

English is the most studied in the world. English words are everywhere. List of English terms that had become more or less

universal:

Airport, passport, hotel, telephone, bar, soda, cigarette, sport, stop, O.k.

Some English words have been adapted such as nylon which means shabby in Serbo-Croatians.

Other nations have left the words largely intact but given the spelling a novel twist. Forinstance the Ukranian word herkot means barber.

Japanes are good at miniaturizing words such as mass communication becomes masu-komi.

European languages also show a curious tendency to take English participles and givethem entirely new meanings.

Some new words are made up. The most relentless borrowers of English words have been the Japanese. Not all languages have welcomed the invasion of English such as French. Most people speak English because of pleasure and necessity. There is certainly a good case for adapting a language as official:

1. Cost of translation

2. The frequency and gravity of misunderstandings owing to difficulties of translation.

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