Which Reminds Me

Yes, it is interesting to see yet another flood of ESL speakers sweeping across the borders, people whose English language skills will mean a skyrocketing demand for more ESL teachers and classrooms to accommodate their transition to living in a country where English is as yet the dominant language. Perhaps we will need to learn a new version of pablum English to accommodate them, to avoid confusing similes and metaphors and figures of speech that may get lost in translation and whose meaning may be misunderstood easily. We cannot realistically expect them to appreciate the vibrancy of the ancient English as spoken by my grandparents, much less that of ancient times of yore in merry old England, which makes us sad, but anyway time goes on.