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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Formal/ informal/ casual

interested in opinions and definitions about
  1. formal spoken language
  2. informal spoken language
  3. casual or slang spoken language
  

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From the Collins dictionary: I. formal language – a language designed for use in situations in which natural language is unsuitable, as for example in mathematics, logic, or computer programming. The symbols and formulas of such languages stand in precisely specified syntactic and semantic relations to one another II.

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  • From the Collins dictionary: I.
  • formal language – a language designed for use in situations in which natural language is unsuitable, as for example in mathematics, logic, or computer programming.
  • The symbols and formulas of such languages stand in precisely specified syntactic and semantic relations to one another II.
  • colloquial (language) – 1) of or relating to conversation 2) denoting or characterized by informal or conversational idiom or vocabulary III.
  • , that is not appropriate to the standard form of a language or to formal contexts, may be restricted as to social status or distribution, and is characteristically more metaphorical and transitory than standard language
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From the Collins dictionary:

I. formal language – a language designed for use in situations in which natural language is unsuitable, as for example in mathematics, logic, or computer programming. The symbols and formulas of such languages stand in precisely specified syntactic and semantic relations to one another

II. colloquial (language) – 1) of or relating to conversation 2)
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