[Corpora-List] 'Standard European English' ?

[Lou Burnard]

Paul Buitelaar wrote:

> Parveen and all, as far as I know the expression 'Standard European 
> English' is sometimes used to refer to British English (as it differs 
> from US English).

Nice to know that us Brits are thought of as forming the standard for 
European (i.e. not US) English, but I rather doubt it.


> 
> The current discussion on the list of 'Eurospeak' examples however is 
> interesting
> 

Presumably there are plenty of equally hilarious examples of non-native 
French speakers' oddities in French, non-native German speakers' 
oddities in German, etc. But this being a resolutely anglophone list, we 
don't hear about them.

Lou