"Looking at the first decade of the 21st century in words is a sober, even sombre, event, " said Paul JJ Payack, president of The Global Language Monitor.

“用词汇来回顾21世纪的头十年是个如梦初醒，甚至悲观的事情。” 全球语言监测机构总裁鲍尔·JJ·佩亚克说。

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Paul JJ Payack, president of the Global Language Monitor, brushed off the criticism, saying his method was technically sound.

全球语言监测机构主席保罗·JJ·帕亚克对这些批评不以为然，称他的方法在技术上是可行的。

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You'll want to be in the U.S. because English has become the global language.

你要呆在美国，是因为英语已经成为全球性语言。

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But others are not giving up. In September, one of India's best known filmmakers, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, will start shooting in the United States for an English language film called Broken Horses, also aimed at global audiences.

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"Occupy" is the top word of 2011, according to the Global Language Monitor's annual global survey of the English language.

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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.

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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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