atw: Re: Looks good, but ....

Good call, Michael (Lewis)

I gather from what I have seen and from what I have had related to me, that 
many people - particularly in South East Asian countries - learn English from a 
very early age, if not from birth - but it's a local variation on the English I 
grew up speaking as a true native speaker.  

I guess I stretched the definition of 'native speaker' to 'someone who learnt 
English either concurrently with their country's official language or at least 
from the very early years of school...'  

:-)
Miriam  
> 
> From: "Michael Lewis" <mlewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 28/04/2004 14:29:51
> To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,  <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: atw: Re: Looks good, but ....
> 
> Miriam:
> 
> > Language is a reflection of / inseparable from culture and the turns of 
> > phrase 
> that we are assuming mark the writer of that media copy as a non-native 
> speaker may merely be the utterances of a native speaker of yet another 
> variation of English, in this case peculiar to Thailand!
> 
> Hmm. I think this is a different use of the term "native speaker"!
> 
> 
> Michael Lewis
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