Re: Euro-English

From: Mike Fedyk (mfedyk@matchmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 06 2003 - 18:45:11 EST


On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:14:03PM -0700, 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.

Yes, I have to agree also. I am a native english speaker, and I have an
Arabic friend who knows english many times better than I do. Though he does
come to me to make sure his phrases are in acceptable according to modern
english (ie, slang and common phrases).
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