Re: HUMOUR: "EuroEnglish": is this for real???
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 1, 2000, 7:09 |
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At 2:46 pm -0400 30/9/00, Jonathan Chang wrote:
>>"EuroEnglish"
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Is this for real? NO! No way - no chance!
It gets posted on this list & others with irregular(but IMNSHO too
frequent) monotony. Versions of it have been around since at least the
1980s to my knowledge.
What beats me is why it still has currency. It's not merely a spelling
reform - it also includes important changes to English phonemic structure.
Hardly likely, methinks.
In any case, the phonemic changes given are silly (e.g. although /D/ is
pronounced by _some_ continentals as [z], /T/ is never pronounced that way)
and reflects the sort of distortions one finds in comic books when "Johnny
Foreigner" can't speak English properly.
Ray.
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