THE ENGLISH OF TODAY?

	Elitist educational elective with endless elusions.
	Nimble, noisy, nefarious, narky discourse channel.
	Gibberish-infused garbage-laden gangrene of lexical artifacts.
	Licentious la-di-da lignified into legal codes.
	Icon of Anglo-American imperialism & iterative IT industries.
	Scion of sophisticated scientific studies as well as salacious scandals.
	Hushed howls of humanity herded into hashed, hyphenated hybrids! . . . Huh? 
	(coughing) Is this the English of today?


Melissa: Why waste time creating poems like this?

Liao: 	 (shrugging his shoulders) Why indeed! I suppose some questions have no easy answers…


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from _Crassroom Voices - Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Education_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: Some thoughts about the social positioning of English in global discourse.
KEYWORDS:  English as an international language, acrostic poetry, linguistic hegemony, linguistic capital, Engli$h for $ale

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 2019 in Yokohama, Japan  / Finished: 2019 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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