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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 _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com