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Yet few panglish speakers even know the word panglish.
Five words shaping our future Steven E. Levingston 2010
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Coined to identify this streamlined English, panglish has transformed the phenomenon into a topic of debate.
Five words shaping our future Steven E. Levingston 2010
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Panglish has been vilified by English nativists afraid that their language is being gutted, and by lexical nationalists abroad terrified that panglish will sully local tongues.
Five words shaping our future Steven E. Levingston 2010
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"But what's happening to English may be its own thing: It's mingling with so many more local languages than Latin ever did, that it's on a path toward a global tongue — what's coming to be known as Panglish. Soon, when Americans travel abroad, one of the languages they'll have to learn may be their own."
– Michael Erard, "How English Is Evolving Into a Language We May Not Even Understand", Wired 16, no. 7 (23 June 2008), here
June 26, 2008