What is the difference between slang and dialect?
slang | dialect | Synonyms |
Language outside of conventional usage.
Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.
The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those not members of the group; cant.
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(dated) To vocally abuse, or shout at.
* 1888', Also, he had to keep his temper when he was '''slanged in the theatre porch by a policeman — Rudyard Kipling, ‘Miss Youghal's ''Sais''’, ''Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2007, p. 26)
(archaic) (sling)
* 1836 , Edward Bagnall, Saul and David
(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.
Dialect is a synonym of slang.
As nouns the difference between slang and dialect
is that slang is language outside of conventional usage while 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 verb slang
is to vocally abuse, or shout at.slang
English
(wikipedia slang)Etymology 1
1756, .Noun
- "Oh, there are so many superior teas and sugars now. Superior is getting to be shopkeepers' slang ."
- "Are you beginning to dislike slang , then?" said Rosamond, with mild gravity.
- "Only the wrong sort. All choice of words is slang . It marks a class."
- "There is correct English: that is not slang ."
- "I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang' of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest '''slang''' of all is the ' slang of poets."
Synonyms
* (jargon) vernacular, jargon, lingo, dialect, cantVerb
(en verb)See also
*Etymology 2
Verb
(head)- Before he slang the all-deciding stone
Etymology 3
Etymology 4
Compare sling.External links
* * *Anagrams
* * ----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.