Talk:World Englishes

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For those less familiar with WEs, there are several journals dedicated to their study, the most important of which are probably World Englishes and English Today.

Just to be clear, World Englishes are not "Inner Circle" varieties, e.g. Irish English and Australian English, neither are they International English (whatever that is, I suppose ETS designers know best) or English as a Lingua Franca. Trachys (talk) 14:28, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merger proposal

"New Englishes" should redirect here as WE is the preferred term. Trachys (talk) 14:28, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

I disagree. World Englishes are related to but unique from New Englishes. "World Englishes" runs the risk of confusion with "World English" or "World Standard English" and is an inaccurate term as it does not properly suggest the character of the language varieties in question. "World Englishes" is an umbrella term and goes so far to include the variations of the inner circle of L1 users whilst New Englishes are distinct to L2 users...Need I go on? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rough for Radio 1 (talk • contribs) 11:29, 7 June 2008 (UTC)