I heard a program on the radio where Jean-Paul Nerrière http://www.jpn-globish.com was proposing a cut-down English as a lingua Franca (ha!). He calls it Globish. His website doesn't use it! all in French.

On the principle that non-Anglophones learn just enough because everyone else does. So he has set a standard lexicon of 1500 words that will get you by. It is not easy to write in it - I have a page on my website as a "rest of world" FAQ translation. I have chosen the UN flag as the icon - best I could think of.

I even wrote a Word Macro to check if the writing is in the Globish. I will post that maybe.

If anyone has a look at cresby.com see what I had to do with a language that has no words like song or singing. All criticisms gratefully recieved.