Well yes, I quite agree, but in the specific context of *European*
language (e.g. the language that is spoken in the coffee bar at the Jean
Monet Building in Luxembourg) experience suggests there should be quite
a lot of "international variety" of the main European languages.
L
TadPiotr wrote:
> I have also thought that we are an international list, using a sort of
> international English, which is quite similar to native English ?
> But: I do not think that anyone suggests that a non-German using his/her
> flawed German is actually using an nternational variety of German. My
> impression is that the number of native speakers of German (yes, I know,
> let's not talk about the varieties and dialects of German...) exceeds that
> of non-native speakers of German, while with English it is the other way
> round.
> Tadeusz Piotrowski
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no
>>[mailto:owner-corpora@lists.uib.no] On Behalf Of Lou Burnard
>>Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 11:06 AM
>>To: corpora@lists.uib.no
>>Cc: Kate Beeching; Briony Williams
>>Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] 'Standard European English' ?
>>
>>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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