Bismarck, Geertz, Bradwell ... and Sam Jones (from Sex and the City)
by Samuel Jones
It begins: 'Any essay on the globalization of the English language that includes references to Otto von Bismarck, open-source advocate Eric Raymond, U.K. reality TV star Shilpa Shetty, Clifford Geertz, "Sex and the City" and Chinua Achebe is an essay that one should pay attention to. And so it is with the 118-page 'As You Like It: Catching Up in an Age of Global English' by Samuel Jones and Peter Bradwell, writing for the U.K. think tank Demos.'