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>>In message , Mathena, Michael <MMathena -at- SPHERECOM -dot- COM> writes
>> Subject: EuroEnglish...
>> The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has
<snip>
>> five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish ("Euro"
>> for short).
>Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:20:31 +0100
>From: Peter Jones <Holtec -at- COMITY -dot- DEMON -dot- CO -dot- UK>
>I deeply resent this miss use of the term for the European currency (see
>we can get upset too if we try hard).
I work in collaboration with about a hundred European universities and
companies, and have heard the term EuroEnglish used several times (not as a
joke) as referring to the written and spoken general medium of
communication (lingua franca) between the European states.
Best,
Jeff
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Jeff ALLEN - Directeur Technique
European Language Resources Association (ELRA) &
European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA)
(Agence Européenne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques)
55, rue Brillat-Savarin
75013 Paris FRANCE
Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:jeff -at- elda -dot- fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
