There is really no such thing as a global language. English may be the language of international exchange, but languages are meant to be spoken. Every time people around the world speak English, they invent a new version--just as immigrants did so many times in America, saving our language from the nasty fate of sophistication. It turns out that Eastern Europe is a major site of innovation. In Hungary, inspired by his "black brothers, Dre, Snoop, Puff, L, Tupac Shakur, rest in peace," the rapper Speak, who learned English while working at a hotel, combines a pleasant anti-war message with total cultural confusion:
Of course, leave it to the new repository for aesthetic genius, the Pop Idol franchise, which like McDonald's can survive in any climate, to show us the joys of Bulgarian English:
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Monday, May 12, 2008
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