My intuition is that, in addition to some "pan-european(except-UK)" English terms,
as suggested by Harold, there will be national variants of English with
local L1-inspired vocabulary and usages.
I have just set my final-year undergrad Computing class a coursework challenge,
"Finding English terms specific to a domain on the World Wide Web",
where "domain" here means a national top-level domain like .DE or .UK
- the 85 students in the class each have to study WWW-English in a different
country, and many have signed up for European nations.
So, I should have some answers for you after 24 March when the courseworks
have to be submitted!
Eric Atwell, School of Computing, Leeds University
PS CORPORA readers are welcome to send me advice or tips to pass on to
my students, esp on appropriate technologies they can use (so they
dont have to write the programs themselves!) - the coursework outline is
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric/db32cw.doc
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Parveen Lallmamode wrote:
> Has anyone of you here ever heard of a 'Standard European English'? If yes:
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> - What are its characteristics?
> - Which researcher added that 'English' to the World Englishes?
> - How does it differ from the 'Standard British English'?
> - Where can I read more about it?
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> Thanking you all in advance.
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-- Eric Atwell, Senior Lecturer, Language research group, School of Computing, Faculty of Engineering, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT, England TEL: +44-113-2335430 FAX: +44-113-2335468 http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric
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