Not to mention "éventuellement" "éventuel" in French = 'possibly, possible'.
Some of my MA Translation students have looked at parallel French-English EU texts about topics such as the Erasmus programme. At first I thought the English versions were 'not English' and read as if they were 'French translated' (lots of nouns ending in -ation!). Finally, however, I decided that this was "Euro-speak" (-babble?") i.e. there is a particular type of English which is used in these contexts. This type of English may be developing at a great rate because often the original documents may be written in English but by non-natives. For example, a Dane wishes to write an EU document so s.he writes it in English. It is a very interesting topic. At what point do we decide that these documents are not "wrong" but a different/new variety of English and how 'systematic' is this English? (Does it have any rules?),
Kate
Dr. Kate Beeching Principal Lecturer, Linguistics and French
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From: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no on behalf of Gloria
Sent: Thu 02/03/2006 1:57 PM
To: Briony Williams
Cc: corpora@lists.uib.no
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] 'Standard European English' ?
> Somers, Harold wrote:
> > Using "eventual(ly)" to mean "if it happens" rather than "final"
>
> I believe this is from the German "eventuell".
In Italian "eventualmente" means the same, "in case" or something like
that.
"Eventualmente, ti chiamo" = "If xxx (it is necessary, if I feel like
doing it, etc.), I'll call you".
Best,
Gloria
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