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Re: HUMOUR: "EuroEnglish": is this for real???

From:Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
Date:Friday, October 6, 2000, 8:12
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i > Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 14:55:08 +1300 > From: andrew <hobbit@...>
> Since this regularly comes up (I was the culprit once), what would a > EuroEnglish look like? What are the sound changes that our friend(s) > Johnny make to EuroEnglish and how can we sensibly describe them without > retreating into xenophobia?
I hear people from most European countries speaking English at work each day. There's almost no features in common --- of course /T/ and /D/ are often changed, but the result varies a lot according to native languages. We also have a Belgian who speaks perfect Californian. Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)