【正文】 ”Perhaps written English will eventually make these acmodations too. Today, having an article published in the Harvard Business Review or the British Medical Journal represents a substantial professional acplishment for a business academic from China or a medical researcher from Thailand. But it is possible to imagine a time when a panAsian journal, for example, bees equally, or more, prestigious and imposes its own “Globish” grammatical standards on writers – its editors changing “the patient feels” to “the patient feel”.也許書面英語最終也會進行這種調(diào)節(jié)。 – a new international assertiveness, so to speak.”“我認為，與其說我們看到的是一個新的國際標(biāo)準，不如說是一種新的‘國際態(tài)度39。But spoken English is another matter. Why should nonnative speakers bother with what native speakers regard as correct? Their main aim, after all, is to be understood by one another. As Mr Graddol says, in most cases there is no native speaker present.但英語口語就完全不同了。其它變異包括“make a discussion”、“discuss about something”或 “phone to somebody”。但當(dāng)愛爾蘭人來電話的時候，情況就變得復(fù)雜而費力。事實上，他補充道，很多用英語召開的商業(yè)會議在沒有英語母語人士在場時似乎運作得更加平穩(wěn)。那么他們做什么呢？作弄一只進了大學(xué)的bechaara bakra（可憐的山羊）。通用語言一旦形成，它的地位就不會在短時間內(nèi)受到撼動。大英帝國將英語帶到了那么多的國度——在這些國家，太陽永遠不會落下；在大英帝國沒落之后，美國的經(jīng)濟和文化影響力確保了英語的統(tǒng)治地位。s language because it is easy. In an essay published last year, he said Latin39。 we ran, he ran, they ran.) Definite and indefinite articles are unaffected by gender (the actor, the actress。葛拉多爾(David Graddol)表示，人們很容易將這看作是北美、不列顛群島及澳大拉西亞等地以英語為母語的人士的勝利——但這是錯誤的。s population – can municate reasonably well in English.有多少人會說英語？全球知名英語專家戴維?克里斯特爾(David Crystal)已就該主題撰寫了逾100本著作。In China, Yu Minhong has turned New Oriental, the pany he founded, into the country39。s biggest provider of private education, with more than 1m students over the past financial year, the overwhelming majority learning English. In Chile, the government has said it wants its population to be bilingual in English and Spanish within a generation.在中國，俞敏洪已將創(chuàng)建的公司新東方(New Oriental)打造成中國最大的私人教育提供商，過去一個財年，該校擁有逾100萬學(xué)生，其中絕大多數(shù)是學(xué)英語的。他估計，15億人（約占全球人口的四分之一）可以用英語很好地進行交流。全球英語已進入一個更為復(fù)雜的階段，以一些老牌英語國家無法控制、可能也不喜歡的方式不斷變化著。 a bull, a cow.) There is no need to remember whether a table is masculine or feminine.一些人相信英語會流傳下去，因為它有一個天然優(yōu)勢：容易學(xué)習(xí)。s grammatical plexity did not hamper its spread. “A language bees a world language for extrinsic reasons only, and these all relate to the power of the people who speak it,” he wrote. The British empire carried English to all those countries on which the sun never set。So could China39。拉丁語也許正在消亡，但它在很長的時間里都是科學(xué)界的通用語言，在進入20世紀很多年之后，羅馬天主教還在使用拉丁文。”科克帕里克教授還提供了一個尼日利亞混雜英語的例子：“Monkey de work, baboon dey chop”（猴子工作，狒狒吃東西）。Native speakers are often poor at ensuring that they are understood in international discussions. They tend to think they need to avoid longer words, when prehension problems are more often caused by their use of colloquial and metaphorical English.在國際討論中，英語母語人士常常不能確保別人能明白自己的意思?！監(jiān)n another occasion, at an international student conference in Amsterdam, conducted in English, the lone British representative was asked to be “l(fā)ess English” so that the others could understand her.在另一個場合，在阿姆斯特丹用英語舉辦的國際學(xué)生大會上，人們要求唯一的一位英國代表“不要