"Occupy" is the top word of 2011, according to the Global Language Monitor's annual global survey of the English language.
English is the global language of business, yet English is also the native tongue of relatively few people, and it is notoriously hard to learn.
The need for a global language is a big part of the fact of globalization, and the dominance of English looks inevitable for a good long time to come.
There was a time about two decades ago when the debate was what would be the next global business language: German, Spanish or Esperanto.
Al-Jazeera International and Russia Today are among the English-language global news channels also set to launch in 2006.
The channel, whose first program will be a news bulletin, will compete directly against Time Warner 's (nyse: TWX - news - people ) CNN International and BBC World, the two main global English-language satellite news channels.
This is the beauty of living in a country that speaks the language of global finance and trade.
English certainly helps forge strong bonds across cultures, but knowledge of the local language makes a global workforce more nimble and productive, and therefore more competitive.
And defying to the perception of the UK as the only key innovator for the social economy (no doubt in part due to the comparative advantage of the English language as the global transmitter of ideas, compared to French or German), continental Europe is emerging as an innovation space for the new role of government in social entrepreneurship.
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Another (English-language) newspaper, Global Times, felt otherwise.
But a positive effect of globalisation is that you can have a language that is spoken by only five or 50 people in one remote location, and now through digital technology that language can achieve a global voice and a global audience.
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It is a language without which the entire global infrastructure is struck dumb.
If you don't like the term "empire" call it global reach, to which the English language lends a nicely helping hand.
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In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Chakravorti, 52, spoke about the type of student the program attracts, teaching global business and why speaking the local language matters.
Markets have been tumbling around the world, in reaction to a darkening global economic landscape - and some equally dark language that politicians have been using to describe it.
This was accompanied by a proprietorial admission that French has decisively lost the battle for status as the world language and that English is now the established global means of communication, for practical matters and for a growing range of cultural ones.
Bosideng is led by Chinese billionaire Gao Dekang, a member of the list of 25 Influential Chinese in Global Fashion published this year by Forbes China, the licensed Chinese-language edition of Forbes.
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Parents stop using traditional tongues, thinking it will be better for their children to grow up using a dominant language (such as Swahili in East Africa) or a global one (such as English, Mandarin or Spanish).
"We live in an ever smaller global community and we probably are at a point where we believe having some language skills is a useful thing - it's what I would call a vocational skill really, " he says.
Visual art also transcends the barrier of language, making both the work and message able to be viewed by a global audience.
Erlang, developed by telecommunications company Ericsson for massively parallel computing in a phone network, then later released as an open source language, both influenced Scala and is enjoying some rebirth in the world of global data centers.
Two months after deciding to step down as a judge on American Idol, global superstar Jennifer Lopez today announces a multi-year partnership with nuvoTV, an English-language cable network for U.S. Latinos.
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An international English-language satellite news TV, RT, is state-funded and aims to present "global news from a Russian perspective".
The February spike in U.S. auto sales was the topic that Thomas Rippe and Xu Qinduo at Beyond Beijing, the English-language arm of China Radio International, wanted to discuss with Tim Dunne , Director of Global Automotive Operations at J.
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