[Corpora-List] 'Standard European English' ?

[Yorick Wilks]

One version of this discussion was had a few years ago when it was  
seriously proposed---I forget who by--to create a corpus of "non- 
native English"; not a corpus of specific Englishes  from specific  
non-native groups (e.g. so as to grammar/spell correct the English of  
French speakers, for example, a useful and real task)---but rather  
some general corpus. I think the proposal collapsed under the  
ridiculousness of the idea. I do hope so and that its not out there  
somewhere waiting for users!
YW


On 3 Mar 2006, at 10:13, TadPiotr wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
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