Globish

The typical conversation in Globish could be grating to a native speaker, but get the job done between, say, a Kenyan and a Korean trying to navigate a business deal or asking for help at the airport check-in.

2006 August 6, Noam Cohen, “Language not pronounced trippingly on native tongue”, in New York Times

Across a dozen different time zones, financial journalists in each of these cities filed reports for their national desks, but the language of the crisis was unvaryingly Globish.

2011, Robert McCrum, Globish: How English Became the World's Language, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 280

Perhaps most importantly, Globish cannot draw on the history and idioms of any one culture.

2012, Gerard Kelly, Church Actually: Rediscovering the Brilliance of God's Plan, page 144

Meanwhile, the local Englishes of Asian and African countries will become increasingly regional in flavour. But the rise of Globish may be prevented by the Babel chip.

2018, Gaston Dorren, Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages