Re: "Anglofixilization" (was: Re: Stick looping videos)

[Paul Mimlitsch <pmimlitsch@mac.com>]

On Sep 29, 2007, at 3:31 AM, Per Boysen wrote:

> On 29 sep 2007, at 04.46, Raul Bonell wrote:
>
>> 6 million people and our mother tongue
>> continues disappearing...
>
>
> Yes, it seems the planet is slowly coming together with English as  
> the common dominator. In my little country of birth we're only some  
> nine million people, but since a decade even journalists on the  
> national level media channels "speak English" but with Swedish  
> words. I mean borrowing typical phrasing and allegories from  
> English instead of using the Swedish equivalence. This phenomenon  
> first happened here three hundred years ago as the upper classes  
> used to borrow from French and even speak French instead of  
> Swedish. But this time it's happening at all levels of the society  
> and that's why I believe it won't stop until every person on the  
> globe speaks Pidgin English, Engrish or whatever the local tweak  
> might add.
>
> I do welcome this linguistic evolution.

As long as it's not driven by ethnocentric "boobism".  It's till sad  
when cultures get gobbled up in the name of expedience/ progress.....