Dialect vs Dublinese - What's the difference?
dialect | dublinese |
(linguistics) A variety of a language (specifically, often a spoken variety) that is characteristic of a particular area, community or group, often with relatively minor differences in vocabulary, style, spelling and pronunciation.
* A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
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A dialect of a language perceived as substandard and wrong.
* 1967 , Roger W. Shuy, Discovering American dialects , National Council of Teachers of English, page 1:
* 1975 , Linguistic perspectives on black English , H. Carl, page 219:
* 1994 , H. Nigel Thomas, Spirits in the dark , Heinemann, page 11:
A language.
A variant of a non-standardized programming language.
The dialect spoken in Dublin.
* 1972 , Hélène Cixous, The exile of James Joyce
* 1999 , Anthony Cronin, Isaac Cronin, Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist
* 2002 , Sarah Hartley, Mrs P's journey: the remarkable story of the woman who created the A-Z map
* 2008 , Anna McPartlin, Apart from the Crowd
As a noun dialect
is a variety of a language (specifically, often a spoken variety) that is characteristic of a particular area, community or group, often with relatively minor differences in vocabulary, style, spelling and pronunciation.As a proper noun Dublinese is
the dialect spoken in Dublin.dialect
English
(wikipedia dialect)Noun
(en noun)- And in addition, many dialects of English make no morphological distinction between Adjectives and Adverbs, and thus use Adjectives in contexts where the standard language requires -ly'' Adverbs: compare
(81) (a) Tex talks ''really quickly'' [Adverb + Adverb]
(b) %Tex talks ''real quick [Adjective + Adjective]
- Many even deny it and say something like this: "No, we don't speak a dialect around here.
[...]
- Well, those children don't speak dialect , not in this school. Maybe in the public schools, but not here.
[...] on the second day, Miss Anderson gave the school a lecture on why it was wrong to speak dialect'. She had ended by saying "Respectable people don't speak ' dialect ."
- Home computers in the 1980s had many incompatible dialects of BASIC.
Usage notes
* The difference between a language and a dialect is not always clear, but it is generally considered that people who speak different dialects can understand each other, while people who speak different languages cannot. Compare species in the biological sense.Derived terms
* dialectal * dialecticSee also
* dialogue * ethnolect * idiolect * sociolectAnagrams
* ----dublinese
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- His spicy language is both best-quality Dublinese in the style of John Joyce and that of James Joyce the accomplished parodist.
- When Beckett arrived one of the first surprises was his Dublin accent; but Lennon was also somewhat taken aback by the idiomatic Dublinese of his discourse...
- Neighbours would strain to hear if the fast passionate arguments were being conducted in Italian or high-speed Dublinese .
- ...he found her flat Dublinese as difficult to navigate, but by the end of that night language had lost meaning...