Metaphorical Sense Dept: A: The term was coined in 1995 by Jean-Paul Nerriere , a French businessman and linguist. For him, it means a spoken version of English used by non-native speakers, with a very limited vocabulary of 1,500 words. But I use Globish in a wider metaphorical sense: It's the globalized version of English as a foreign language, fuelled by global capitalism, global media and global politics. Look at the European Union: You find Czechs, Hungarians, Estonians using English as a way of doing deals in Brussels. They're not for a minute letting go of their tremendous nationalist fervour, but English is the language they'll default to, according to The Globe and Mail. A: It really started with the end of the adversarial relationships of the Cold War, coupled with the great explosion of global capitalism in the nineties, which in turn was driven by the Internet revolution. The English language was decoupled from its imperial past and colonial past, and gained what you might call a supranational momentum: It can be used by anybody without any anxiety and q: What is this Globish that the whole world is speaking? Q: How did English come to be the world's language? As
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