[Corpora-List] 'Standard European English' ?

[Nicholas Sanders]

I couldn't have put it better myself!!

Nick


On 8 Mar 2006, at 12:45, Martin Wynne wrote:

> Nick's example has a simple past tense of an active verb in the  
> main clause. This is the usage which occurs in non-native English,  
> and strikes native speakers as, depending on point of view, either:
> - charming
> - just plain wrong
> - an interesting interference error
> - evidence of a new dialect of English



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