It seems the Anglo-Saxons have finally surrendered

It seems the Anglo-Saxons have finally surrendered. At any rate, they have certainly surrendered their language. The BBC website has a version in English, or, to put it as gently as possible, in its Afro-ghetto variety.

Try reading any news item in this dialect. It is as though one had been transported into the film “Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood”.

The very language in which scores are settled in the darkest back alleys of the English-speaking world.

Dey instead of they
Pipo instead of people
Goment instead of government
Happun instead of happen
Ova instead of over

That is, the most primitivised version of English, as though recorded by people who cannot read.

Pidgin, which has its own version of the BBC news site, is a low-caste version of the English language, used by the common folk of peoples for whom it is not a native tongue. The practice of producing news resources in a lowered register is nothing new in the Western world: Germany, for instance, has media created specially in simplified German. But these stress simple words, a modest vocabulary and uncomplicated syntax, while remaining at all times impeccably correct and literate, and on no account resorting to slang or frankly debased diction, which is, in fact, just what English pidgin is (it originally derives from the Chinese pronunciation of the English word “business”). In the case of BBC Pidgin we get wrong grammar, wrong pronunciation, wrong syntax; in a word, the wrong, the nano-contingent.

The intellectual majority of the English-speaking world, what can one say