Dialect...What The Hell is It?


Dialect is one of the various forms of a particular language, spoken by a group in the language community 


^That's a definition. KNOW IT.

Okay, let me try to clarify....
 English is a language. Right? You speak English, some kid in Australia speaks English, and some old guy from Yorkshire speaks English. Do you understand half of what they're saying?  Most likely not. Each of you speaks with a different accent, has different vocabulary and might throw in some slang here and there. So although you all are speaking English, you all are speaking different forms of English. Each of these forms is a dialect.

Some examples of dialects are British Standard English, Jamaican Standard English, American Standard English, Trinidadian Standard English, Barbadian Standard English, Cockney English you get the point...

Next post will be Creole Continuum. That's some important stuff there. It goes with this.

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    Had my exam today... This helped a lot.
    Thanks so much and I love Ur sarcasm.
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