[Corpora-List] 'Standard European English' ?

[Lou Burnard]

Well yes, I quite agree, but in the specific context of *European* 
language (e.g. the language that is spoken in the coffee bar at the Jean 
Monet Building in Luxembourg) experience suggests there should be quite 
a lot of "international variety" of the main European languages.

L

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
> 
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>>-----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:
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>>>Parveen and all, as far as I know the expression 'Standard European 
>>>English' is sometimes used to refer to British English (as 
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>>it differs 
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>>>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.
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>>>The current discussion on the list of 'Eurospeak' examples 
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>>however is 
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>>>interesting
>>>
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>>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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