[Corpora-List] Re: 'Standard European English' ?

[Ed Kenschaft]

On 3/7/06, FIDELHOLTZ_DOOCHIN_JAMES_LAWRENCE <jfidel at siu.buap.mx> wrote:
> I *am* a native speaker (or at least I used to be), and I don't have any
> qualms about 'concertation'.  Maybe I should?

I am also a native speaker of (American) English, and I still have not
been able to figure out from the context of this discussion what
'concertation' is supposed to mean.

> ... and aside from us monolingual Americans, most English
> speakers with any academic pretensions at all ...
> can at least read in a couple of non-English languages.

Alas, I am an American with academic, even linguistic, pretensions,
who is totally incapable of reading above the first-grade level in any
other language.  :(

That's not to say I would object to anyone writing in another
language.  Just don't expect us provincial Yanks to follow along.

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