Re: it's not a dialect, it's not an accent, it's....what?

From: Tristan Miller (psychonaut_at_nothingisreal.com)
Date: 02/26/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 00:06:56 +0100

Greetings.

In article <1109421717.817053.53390@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, Yef
wrote:
> What do you call it when a group of people from
> a given region or ethnic group have a manner of
> speaking which involves choosing particular words
> or expressions to convey certain commonplace ideas,
> the use of which is not widespread or common,
> but is just 'their way' of expressing ideas.
> To anyone not in their social group their word
> choice and expressions and even word order, while
> not invalid, are often found to be awkward.
>
> But what do you call this, since it's not
> an accent issue and it's not, as far as I know,
> dialectical.

Well, according to Marx, everything is dialectical. But perhaps you meant
dialectal? Anyway, I see no reason why the language patterns you describe
couldn't be described as a dialect. What leads you to believe it's not?

Regards,
Tristan 

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