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

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Paul Buitelaar wrote:

> Parveen and all, as far as I know the expression 'Standard European
> English' is sometimes used to refer to British English (as it differs
> 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.

>
> The current discussion on the list of 'Eurospeak' examples however is
> interesting
>

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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