[Corpora-List] 'Standard European English' ?

[TadPiotr]

I have also thought that we are an international list, using a sort of
international English, which  is quite similar to native English ?
But: I do not think that anyone suggests that a non-German using his/her
flawed German is actually using an nternational variety of German. My
impression is that the number of native speakers of German (yes, I know,
let's not talk about the varieties and dialects of German...) exceeds that
of non-native speakers of German, while with English it is the other way
round.
Tadeusz Piotrowski

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-corpora at lists.uib.no 
> [mailto:owner-corpora at lists.uib.no] On Behalf Of Lou Burnard
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 11:06 AM
> To: corpora at lists.uib.no
> Cc: Kate Beeching; Briony Williams
> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] 'Standard European English' ?
> 
> 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
> 
>