ABSTRACT
There exists today a universal language that is spoken and understood almost everywhere: it is Broken English. I am not referring to Pidgin English, a highly formalized and restricted branch of BE, but to the much more general language that is used by waiters in Hawaii, prostitutes in Paris and ambassadors in Washington, by businessmen from Buenos Aires, by scientists at international meetings and by dirty-postcard peddlers in Greece, in short by honourable people like myself all over the world.
