How lucky we are that the official language of the world is 'bad english'

The title of this posting was inspired when I watched and listened to Frederik Haren's YouTube video on creativity - he's an entertaining speaker, and has some thought provoking ideas about global business.

The idea that 'bad english' (he meant english spoken very well by people for whom english is not their mother tongue) is the official language of the world captured my imagination as I reflected on all the people around the world I have worked with, and who have put up with my own (mother tongue) 'bad english'.

Note to self, to use fewer big words, and even fewer Yorkshire sayings, to make my point.  Probably pretty useful to use shorter sentences and less convoluted sentence structures too!