- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 18:01:01 +0200
- To: jelks@jelks.nu
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Jelks Cabaniss wrote: > > Daniel Glazman wrote: > > > 1. using colloquial english like "to muck up" makes your point > > difficult to understand w/o a dictionnary for non-english locutors. I > > had to use a dictionnary. > > Sorry.[1] But you got me back -- I couldn't find "locutor"[2] even in the > dictionary... locution /ipa here/ n. act or mode of speaking; expression, word or phrase. adj. locutionary of or pertaining to an utterance. n. locutory a room for conversation, especially in a monastery. [Latin loqui, locutus, to speak] Chamers 20th Century Dictionary, 1983, "new" edition locution/ipa goes here/ n. 1 a word, phrase, or idiom 2. style of speech [from Old French or Latin loqui = speak] Websters Handy Dictionary, 1992, dead tree edition Which by extension from the rules of American English Grammar (there is no noun that cannot be verbed) yields "locutor". Actually I tried to find a suitable word or phrase that succinctly conveyed the concept "one for whom English is not the mother tongue" but failed in the time I had available before having to do something else. -- Chris
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