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Definitely: the EU, in particular, seems to be pretty inventive in their use of English, coming up with new words, novel grammatical constructions, and novel me
by apendleton 13y ago
Definitely: 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