If You Can't Master English, Try Globish PARIS – It happens all the time: during an airport delay the man to the left, a Korean perhaps, starts talking to the man opposite, who might be Colombian, and soon they are chatting away in what seems to be English. But the native English speaker sitting between them cannot understand a word. They don't know it, but the Korean and the Colombian are speaking Globish, the latest addition to the 6,800 languages that are said to be spoken across the world. Not that is inventor, Jean–Paul Nerrière, considers it a proper language.. “It is not a language, it is a tool," he says. “A language is the vehicle of a culture. Gobish doesn't want to be that all. It is a means of communication." Nerrière doesn't see Globish in the same light as utopian efforts such as Kosmos, Volapuk, Novial or staunch Esperanto. Nor should it be confused with barbaric Algol (for Algorithmic language). It is a sort of English lite: a means of simplifying the language and giving it rules so it can be understood by all. BLUME, M. Disponível em www.nytimes.com. Acesso em 28 out 2013 (fragmento). Considerando as ideias apresentadas no texto, o Globish (Global English) é uma variedade da língua inglesa que