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Conversational vs Demotic - What's the difference?

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Conversational is a related term of demotic.


As adjectives the difference between conversational and demotic

is that conversational is of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty while demotic is of or for the common people.

As a noun demotic is

(linguistics) language as spoken or written by the common people.

conversational

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty
  • (computing) involving a two-way exchange of messages, such as between a client and a server
  • Anagrams

    * conservational

    demotic

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or for the common people.
  • *
  • Of, relating to, or written in the vulgar form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing.
  • demotic script is a simplified, cursive form of hieroglyphs used in ancient Egypt.
  • Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.
  • demotic Greek

    Synonyms

    * (of the vulgar form of hieratic writing) enchorial

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) Language as spoken or written by the common people.
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  • Note the intrusion into British demotic (“me and Cheryl were having”) of the valley-girl quotative be, like .

    Derived terms

    * demotist