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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=3>Not to mention
"éventuellement" "éventuel" in French = 'possibly, possible'.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial>Some of my MA Translation students have looked at
parallel French-English EU texts about topics such as the Erasmus programme. At
first I thought the English versions were 'not English' and read as if they were
'French translated' (lots of nouns ending in -ation!). Finally,
however, I decided that this was "Euro-speak" (-babble?") i.e. there is a
particular type of English which is used in these contexts. This type of English
may be developing at a great rate because often the original documents may be
written in English but by non-natives. For example, a Dane wishes
to write an EU document so s.he writes it in English. It is a very
interesting topic. At what point do we decide that these documents are not
"wrong" but a different/new variety of English and how 'systematic' is this
English? (Does it have any rules?),</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial>Kate</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV RE><FONT size=2>Dr. Kate Beeching Principal Lecturer, Linguistics and
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> owner-corpora@lists.uib.no on behalf of
Gloria<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thu 02/03/2006 1:57 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Briony
Williams<BR><B>Cc:</B> corpora@lists.uib.no<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[Corpora-List] 'Standard European English' ?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>> Somers, Harold wrote:<BR>> > Using "eventual(ly)" to
mean "if it happens" rather than "final"<BR>><BR>> I believe this is from
the German "eventuell".<BR><BR>In Italian "eventualmente" means the same, "in
case" or something like<BR>that.<BR>"Eventualmente, ti chiamo" = "If xxx (it is
necessary, if I feel like<BR>doing it, etc.), I'll call
you".<BR><BR>Best,<BR><BR>Gloria<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>This incoming email to UWE
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