This list is fascinating both for inclusions and for omissions. I will defer humbly to Radoslaw for opinion on 'Eastern European English', but I lived five years in West Africa. While Nigeria and Ghana, for example, sound pretty similar, the English of Liberia is a horse of a very different color. We could add to the list a number of countries like India where English is an official 'national language' or simply a de facto lingua franca.
And what pray tell is 'International English' or just plain old unqualified 'English'? How many dictionaries do we have to keep at arm's reach? . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 05/13/2014 03:23 PM Subject: Buying desktop software from IBM Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> In the checkout process, it wants to know my "Communication Language" and my "Media Language". For the latter, choices include: Australian English British English Eastern European English English International English US English I'd be hard-pressed to choose among several of those.or to even imagine what Eastern European English is?! Anyone? Bueller? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
