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That's exactly what I was thinking. All UN stuff is in both English and French, and as you say Canada would be another good source.
by cschmidt 13y ago
That's exactly what I was thinking. All UN stuff is in both English and French, and as you say Canada would be another good source.
- vidarh 13y agoPretty much all EU publications as well.
- kryptiskt 13y agoEU documents are written in twenty-seven flavors of bureaucratese though, don't know how useful that is for a corpus.
- apendleton 13y agoDefinitely: the EU, in particular, seems to be pretty inventive in their use of English, coming up with new words, novel grammatical constructions, and novel meanings for old words, and since so many of the documents are written by non-native English speakers, this inventions end up being assumed correct by other bureaucrats and re-used in subsequent writing, such that the EU has developed its own weird English pseudo-dialect. See: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4620 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4620
- gotofritz 13y agoNot all - the main three languages are English, German, and French (IIRC the Italian government just won a court case of some sort because they claimed this was discriminatory against its citizen, especially when it comes to posting job vacancies)