Globish (Gogate)
Encyclopedia
Globish is an artificial language created by Madhukar Gogate that attempts to simplify English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

. It was presented to the "Simplified Spelling Society" of Great Britain in 1998. According its creator, it can be considered an artificial English dialect, as proof of the possibility of simplifying the orthography
Orthography
The orthography of a language specifies a standardized way of using a specific writing system to write the language. Where more than one writing system is used for a language, for example Kurdish, Uyghur, Serbian or Inuktitut, there can be more than one orthography...

 and pronunciation
Pronunciation
Pronunciation refers to the way a word or a language is spoken, or the manner in which someone utters a word. If one is said to have "correct pronunciation", then it refers to both within a particular dialect....

of standard English.
For example, the word "color" or "colour" (USA or British spelling) is in globish "kalar". Gogate says that his project is related to, but independent of, English.

Examples

  • hee is fain: (He is fine)
  • too kaats went tu siti... (Two cats went to city.)
  • eet it kwikli... (Eat it quickly!)
  • du yu no wear tha lybrari is? (Do you know where the library is?)
  • tha world wants pees and prosperiti... (The world wants peace and prosperity.)


Without translation
  • e frend in need is e frend indeed... [A friend in need is a friend indeed.]
  • maay haart leeps ap wen I bihold e reinbo in tha sky... [My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky.]
  • sar, yuwar baggej did not kam by this flait... [Sir, your baggage did not come by this flight.]
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