Jean-Paul Nerrière
Jean-Paul Nerrière is a French computer engineer and inventor of Globish, a trademarked name for a subset of the English language formalized by him.[1] Globish, a portmanteau of Global and English uses a subset of standard English grammar, and a list of 1500 English words. Nerrière claims it is "not a language" in and of itself,[2] but rather it is the common ground that non-native English speakers adopt in the context of international business.
As a manager of IBM, in the 1990s, Nerrière traveled to various parts of the world, in particular in Japan, and realized that a new global language was becoming more and more important. He formulated his ideas in two books he authored, Decouvrez le globish (meaning Discover the Globish) and Do Not Speak English, Parlez Globish. Both books have been translated into a number of international languages.
References
- ^ "Globish now the lingua franca of world travellers" The Australian, December 12, 2006.
- ^ "Parlez vous Globish? Probably, even if you don't know it", Toronto Star, March 7, 2009.