SubscribeChinglish is winning.
August 31, 2009 at 10:36 p.m.
With the World Expo coming, Shanghai has joined the War on Chinglish. And so, as sure as there is smog in Beijing, there is a new round of stories touting China's official efforts to copy edit the worst linguistic offenders.
But it gets me thinking about Chinglish again, and more broadly, Konglish, Singlish and all the other creoles, sublanguages and other linguistic concoctions people use when one language just isn't enough.
In 2007, the IHT noted the rise of English as the first truly global language:
As a new millennium begins, scholars say ...
