Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Aug 2003 20:37:32 -0400 | From | Timothy Miller <> | Subject | Re: Euro-English |
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jw schultz wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:16:51AM +0200, Maciej Soltysiak wrote: > >>>>If zis mad yu smil, pleas pas it on to oza pepl. >>> >>>Chuckle... Some people have way too much time on their hands. :-) >> >>Oh, come on, it really points something out. >>Europe is a place where everybody speaks bad english :) >>And people who know english and bad english tend to use bad english. > > > As you have just done ;) > > I also disagree. Many in Europe speak English much better > than those born to it. >
The trained Linguist in me speaks:
What is "good" English?
Do you mean "broadly understandable"? Or do you mean "as defined by pedants"?
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