From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272379AbTHGAYp (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 20:24:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272637AbTHGAYo (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 20:24:44 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:23823 "HELO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S272379AbTHGAYl (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 20:24:41 -0400 Message-ID: <3F319F4C.9030709@techsource.com> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 20:37:32 -0400 From: Timothy Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jw schultz CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Euro-English References: <20030805233308.GD928@matchmail.com> <200308052014.31133.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <20030806231403.GF1380@pegasys.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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"?