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Globish(a minimalistic dialect of English used for international buisness) will be the de facto language of Europe by 2030

Created by Keller on 2011-12-16; known on 2030-12-31

  • Keller estimated 40% on 2011-12-16
  • gwern said “Which Globish? Who decides ‘de facto’? English is already the standard language of trade – as it is, is it not? – then one could simply say ‘they don’t use huge vocabs’ and declare victory in 20 years…on 2011-12-16
  • themusicgod1 estimated 33% and said “this could be Simple English. https://simple.wikipedia.org . Guess we gotta get RahisiBhasha ( https://github.com/themusicgod1/RahisiBhasha/ ) in gear to beat this!on 2016-10-09