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From Blazonry to PoliceSpeak
R. Lee Humphreys
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17 October 2008, pp. 37-39
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A consideration of communication in a multilingual Europe, past and present, including such ‘sublanguages’ as Air Traffic Control Language, Seaspeak, PoliceSpeak, flag language and heraldry

‘The Good Feeling of Fine’1: English for Ornamental Purposes
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17 October 2008, pp. 50-51
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In ET12 (Oct 87), John Dougill described kinds of decorative but usually meaningless bits of English on Japanese commercial products. Now, MARK N. BROCK, in Hong Kong, indicates that ‘ornamental English’ has become widespread in East Asia.

Aureate or inkpot?
Keith White
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17 October 2008, pp. 45-48
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KEITH WHITE discusses the tradition of ornate technical terms in English and their emergence in contemporary literary theory

The suckerpunches of the SAT
Valerie Ostarch
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17 October 2008, pp. 40-42
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VALERIE OSTARCH considers the ways in which a major American English test works against the interests and morale of those whose competence it is meant to assess

Indian English
Raj N. Bakshi
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17 October 2008, pp. 43-46
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Kachru (1965, 1966) has presented a detailed analysis of the idiosyncratic vocabulary items of Indian English (hereafter IE). He observes that “in India an idiom of English has developed which is Indian in the sense that there are formal and contextual exponents of Indianness in such writing, and the defining-context of such idiom is Indian setting” (1965:396). To illustrate how IE has become culture bound in India, he mentions many formations, such as confusion of caste, dung wash, saltgiver, rape-sister, etc., drawn from IE fiction, and calls them Indianisms.

English across cultures: the Kachru Catch
Gerry Abbott
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17 October 2008, pp. 55-57
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GERRY ABBOTT of the School of Education, the University of Manchester, replies to Braj Kachru's article ‘Liberation linguistics and the Quirk Concern’ (ET 25, Jan 91).

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