[Corpora-List] 'Standard European English' ?

[Yorick Wilks]

For my money nothing rivals "sheepmeat" (S.E.E for "lamb" or "mutton")
Yorick Wilks


On 2 Mar 2006, at 15:37, Kate Beeching wrote:

> Not to mention "éventuellement" "éventuel" in French = 'possibly,  
> possible'.
>
> 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?),
> Kate
>
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> From: owner-corpora at lists.uib.no on behalf of Gloria
> Sent: Thu 02/03/2006 1:57 PM
> To: Briony Williams
> Cc: corpora at lists.uib.no
> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] 'Standard European English' ?
>
> > Somers, Harold wrote:
> > > Using "eventual(ly)" to mean "if it happens" rather than "final"
> >
> > I believe this is from the German "eventuell".
>
> In Italian "eventualmente" means the same, "in case" or something like
> that.
> "Eventualmente, ti chiamo" = "If xxx (it is necessary, if I feel like
> doing it, etc.), I'll call you".
>
> Best,
>
> Gloria
>
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