Bøger af David Hon

"I must congratulate you on GLOBISH THE WORLD OVER. It's a pioneering text of great importance, full of enthralling insights for native and non-native English users alike." -- Robert McCrum, author, The Story of English and Literary Editor, London Observer. Globish, as a concept, takes to task the world hegemony of arrogant English-speakers. Hence the landmark book Don't Speak English - Parlez Globish became a best-seller in French, and other languages, but it never appeared in English. GLOBISH THE WORLD OVER is the first book written in Globish-English. Non-native English speakers from non-Anglophone countries use English better between themselves than with any native English speaker. Globish codifies their very efficient "similar limitations". The word Globish may strike English-speakers as an "odd" way to rename their English. However billions of speakers in Brazil, Russia, India and China will be the new "owners" of what the world is now calling Globish. The implications are far-reaching. GLOBISH THE WORLD OVER discusses this phenomenon, and demonstrates that Globish - as a deliberate and sufficient subset of English for international communication - is limited more by a person's communication ability than by mere words.

A book of short, fun, one-act plays for students of English (ESL). Because these one-acts are bare stage and small cast, they were used by drama classes under the title Rehearsals For Armageddon for several years, and were even performed professionally by the Second City in Chicago and the Dudly Riggs Theater in Minneapolis. Now they have been rewritten for the 1500 word Globish-English vocabulary and will be ideal for English Conversation Class activities as well as for drama classes and presentations in English.

This version of Globish The World Over is abridged for readers who want to use their native tongue to learn about this Globish tool for international communication, but it also lets students who are learning English see the basic structures of Globish-English, line-by-line in Dutch. "I must congratulate you on GLOBISH THE WORLD OVER. It's a pioneering text of great importance, full of enthralling insights for native and non-native English users alike" -- Robert McCrum, author, The Story of English and Literary Editor, London Observer. Globish, as a concept, takes to task the world hegemony of arrogant English-speakers. Hence the landmark book Don't Speak English - Parlez Globish became a best-seller in French, and other languages, but it never appeared in English. GLOBISH THE WORLD OVER is the first book written in Globish-English. Non-native English speakers from non-Anglophone countries use English better between themselves than with any native English speaker. Globish codifies their very efficient "similar limitations". The word Globish may strike English-speakers as an "odd" way to rename their English. However billions of speakers in Brazil, Russia, India and China will be the new "owners" of what the world is now calling Globish. The implications are far-reaching. GLOBISH THE WORLD OVER discusses this phenomenon, and demonstrates that Globish - as a deliberate and sufficient subset of English for international communication - is limited more by a person's communication ability than by mere words.

Waiting Out the Chess Master The material here was a bit too personally sensitive for publication while I was in the Marines, or for these many years thereafter. However, wars leave almost geologic strata of mental residue. Sometimes either a little digging, or a different angle of perception can unearth a bit more clarity, both to bystanders and to later generation. That is why I bring these forth now. -David Hon - Rock and Roll and folksongs had invigorated our bodies and souls, but there was ever a specter present. Even as free love changed our young lives from a pseudo-Victorian upbringing, the prospect of our young death in war grimly counterbalanced what was a jolly good time in the early 60s. Many young American men felt they were stalling off death. They kept their grades up to stay in college or remained in bad marriages if that would keep them from the military draft. They turned physical problems into assets: a mere doctor's note could save their lives by effecting a deferment. They went in the Peace Corps. Canada started getting male immigration from the States. Long before the Vietnam involvement was nationally unpopular, it was a danger lurking over most men in their late teens. More specifically, some like me thought to wait it out. Surely the little involvement in 1962 would not grow. Then surely, the draft and the larger influx of troops sent there meant it would all be over soon. Then surely, by 1964, it could not last much longer. It could not be longer than World War I, or World War II or Korea had been. I felt safe in the timing, and ...surely it would all be over before anyone noticed me. It became however, like a life-sized chessboard with the specter making unpredictable moves. I was in a land grant college which meant I had to attend Reserve Officer Training Corps meetings during the weeks of courses. Beginning college in 1960, I had learned about polishing shoes and marching into the sides of buildings at the commands of squeaky novices in the Seattle morning mud. Not the big hot college times we had signed up for. Thinking these people could not really be serious, I turned in my ROTC uniform and continued with my studies. A year later, some official sent me letter that I would not stay in school without being in a military program. I found one which would let me give up a short time in the summer and if I failed at it or dropped out, I would go straight into the Reserves, which surely would never be called up, because surely the war would be over soon. It was called the Platoon Leaders Corps and was run by the Marines to attract Officer Candidates and, in those days, to weed out weaklings. My problem was, at that rebellious age, I didn't want to be weeded out of anything, so I came through it with about 30% of the starting class which survived hazing and other mental cruelties. Later, during the school year, I casually dropped out of the program and they put me in a reserve unit where I learned to string wire to telephones. Once a month I would go to a formation and learn how to avoid peeling potatoes. The rest of the time, like most students, I worked at odd jobs to pay for college and felt I had done my duty and would sit out this war in the Marine reserves. Surely that was all now. Happy life was back in the offing. And it was so for a few years, until I graduated. Going to the University of Tulsa on a small fellowship, I was transferred to a reserve unit of truck drivers. I learned to drive split axle trucks and on many weekends we took a case of beer and sat on top of a big truck watching stock car races from a hilltop. These were mellow weekend afternoons of supposed driver training. What a way to spend the war. Except the war did not cooperate and end when it surely must have... This book of poetry is a personal account with poetry and was for the author, therapeutic. For those who know the Vietnam war only from the distance of news or history, perhaps it will be another perspect

This version of Globish The World Over is abridged for readers who want to use their native tongue to learn about this Globish tool for international communication, but it also lets students who are learning English see the basic structures of Globish-English, line-by-line in Spanish. "I must congratulate you on GLOBISH THE WORLD OVER. It's a pioneering text of great importance, full of enthralling insights for native and non-native English users alike" -- Robert McCrum, author, The Story of English and Literary Editor, London Observer. Globish, as a concept, takes to task the world hegemony of arrogant English-speakers. Hence the landmark book Don't Speak English - Parlez Globish became a best-seller in French, and other languages, but it never appeared in English. GLOBISH THE WORLD OVER is the first book written in Globish-English. Non-native English speakers from non-Anglophone countries use English better between themselves than with any native English speaker. Globish codifies their very efficient "similar limitations". The word Globish may strike English-speakers as an "odd" way to rename their English. However billions of speakers in Brazil, Russia, India and China will be the new "owners" of what the world is now calling Globish. The implications are far-reaching. GLOBISH THE WORLD OVER discusses this phenomenon, and demonstrates that Globish - as a deliberate and sufficient subset of English for international communication - is limited more by a person's communication ability than by mere words.