Globish (also known as Parallel English) is a

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created by Madhukar Gogate that attempts to simplify

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, including the use of

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, and the removal of most punctuation and capital letters. It was presented to the Simplified Spelling Society (now known as English Spelling Society) of the

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in 1998. According to its creator, it can be considered an artificial English dialect, as proof of the possibility of simplifying the

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and

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of standard English.

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Globish uses

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s, with no

diacritic A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek (, "distinguishing"), from (, "to distinguish"). The word ''diacriti ...

s or

upper case Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing ...

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Globish (Parallel English with neat spelling)

Glimpses of Globish (Parallel English)
{{English dialects by continent Constructed languages Controlled English English as a global language Constructed languages introduced in the 1990s 1998 introductions fr:Globish#Essais de formalisation du globish

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