英文阅读：English 会变成Panglish？
我们都知道英语是世界使用最广泛的语言。美国马里兰州陶森大学英语历史学家EdwinDuncan博士日前称，人们现在使用的英语将在100年后消失，被一种叫做“Panglish”的世界性语言代替。这种语言类似于母语非英语的人们所说的英语。
We know that English is the prevailing world language, and that Chinglish
should be avoided. However, a new global tongue, called "Panglish", is expected
to overtake traditional English in the coming decades.
The language of Shakespeare and Dickens is evolving into a new, simplified
form of English that will be spoken by billions of people around the world. The
changes are being driven by people who speak English as a second language, New
Scientist magazine reports.
According to the report, Panglish will be similar to the versions of
English used by non-native speakers.
Linguists say Panglish will lose some of the English sounds which
non-native speakers find difficult to pronounce. For instance, the "th" sounds
in "this" and "thin" might be replaced by "z" or "s", respectively. The short
"l" sound in "hotel" might be replaced with the longer "l" of "lady".
Consonants at the end of words may be dropped. So "friend" may be
pronounced as "frien" and "send" as "sen". Group nouns like "information" and
"furniture" – which don't have plural versions – could vanish. Therefore, it may
become acceptable in Panglish to talk about "informations" and "furnitures".
Non-English speakers often forget the "s" at the end of third person
singular verbs like "he runs" or "she walks". In Panglish, people may say "he
talk" or "she eat".
"By 2010, around 2 billion people, or a third of the world's population,
will speak English as a second language. In contrast, just 350 million people
will speak it as a first language. By 2020, the number of native speakers will
be down to 300 million," the Daily Mail newspaper predicts.
Unlike French, which is protected from corruption by the Academie
Francaise, there is no organization to guard the English language.
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