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Nizar South Posted 14 years ago
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colloquial English

What's the difference between colloquial English and slang? could you give some examples please? Are expressions like: I gonna... and I wanna...(instead of I am going to... and I want to...) considered as colloquial?
  

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Nizar South What's the difference between colloquial English and slang? Colloquial : characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation rather than written English. the new coworker's rudeness soon began—to use a colloquial expression— to rub me the wrong way ...

— Mister Micawber

  • Nizar South What's the difference between colloquial English and slang?
  • Colloquial : characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation rather than written English.
  • the new coworker's rudeness soon began—to use a colloquial expression— to rub me the wrong way ...
  • But I think part of this pickle that we're in —if I may be colloquial, even though I'm not running for office—is that we've lost their sense of responsibility.
  • Slang : language at its most informal, using expressions that many would consider to be grammatically imperfect and sometimes rude.
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Nizar SouthWhat's the difference between colloquial English and slang?
Colloquial: characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation rather than written English.

...the new coworker's rudeness soon began—to use a colloquial expression—to rub me the wrong way...
....But I think part of this pickle that we
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