WE ALL SPEAK DIALECTS
In relation to the recent post on "a language is a dialect with an navy and an army/missionary and a dictionary ", I thought this meme needed to come into existence. Now, here it is! Hurray! A dialect is a sub-variety of a language, often defined by geographical borders, but not necessarily. We all speak dialects, most often more than two. No-one speaks "just a language", or at least I have a very hard time understanding what that would even mean. Perhaps if one was the only ever known speaker of one language.. Feel free to talk to us about that down in the comments or here ^^! We mainly talk about dialects when referring to less standard varieties, most often rural areas or informal language. But, they're all dialects. The language of the capital, of the television and of the written press are also dialect(s). We all speak dialects. Just as with other kinds of norms it's hard to realise that they exist at all if one is part of the most ...