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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
Linguistics Studies

Inferior dialects?

Do you agree with this comment?

"Regional dialects are structurally or expressively inferior to the standard language."

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You must first define how to differentiate dialects from languages?

Is it the number of people speaking it?
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Not at all! You cannot say that a language or dialect is superior/inferior/ or more/less perfect than another! (Though it may be more complicated, ....).
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It seems that many native speaker of English do believe it though. I am a NNES and was shocked to discover just how many.
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I agree with this definition. What about you?



Dialect

from Wikiepedia

Jump to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect#column-one, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect#searchInput
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They are not experts on languages and the related issues who believe some languages/dialects could be superior to others. You can decide about the social class of speaker from what you hear, but it does not indicate that the language itself is also in a higher position!
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AnonymousDo you agree with this comment?

"Regional dialects are structurally or expressively inferior to the standard language."

The question is meaningless. You've handed out the language as being the standard, therefore all variations must be inferior. Not because they are empirically inferior, but because their inferiority is established as the p
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<You've handed out the language as being the standard, therefore all variations must be inferior. >

Is something standard for a reason? Yes. At base, Standard English is the one we use to communicate with the largest amount of speakers throughout the many English speaking countries. Some peole consider that variant to be superior in ability to express oneself and in structural make
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AnonymousIs something standard for a reason? Yes. At base, Standard English is the one we use to communicate with the largest amount of speakers throughout the many English speaking countries. Some peole consider that variant to be superior in ability to express oneself and in structural make up. The question is simple. The answer is for you to decide.
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