Re: CHAT: On the term 'engelang'
From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, May 15, 2002, 21:02 |
And wrote:
> > But, of course, I am not a native English speaker.
>
>Being a native speaker makes no difference to judgements of
>orthography. Nobody is a native speller.
Well, of course not, but the first orthography you learn is bound to deeply
affect your graphemic prejudices. And being a native speaker of a given
language usually means that you've been much more exposed to its orthography
than have most non-natives.
Andreas
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