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July 06, 2008

Chinglish may replace English as American Imperium fades

Interestingly, some of the possible changes to English from a heavy Chinese infusion would have Chinglish sounding like “Black English”: loss of helping verbs and definite and indefinite articles.

Read the full story for more.

Oh, and unlike “Black English,” it’s going to be harder to resist the demographic pressure of hundreds of millions of Chinese.

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