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dialect
noun as in local speech
Example Sentences
“Severance” takes corporate dialect beyond the practice of concise, emotionally neutral workplace communication — office jargon’s alleged purpose — into an alternate universe.
The inventory will also include its unique dialect, bush medicine, games, crafts, architecture and boat-building techniques.
"Iranians were here. They all fled," one of them says, speaking in his mother tongue, a dialect of Turkish.
The last thing I’d like to say about it is that there’s been a lot of confusion about the dialect, and I think there was confusion about where we used it in the film.
And in recent years, the oftentimes absurd incursion of loanwoards has become satirized in popular culture, with speech that needlessly shoehorns English in at every turn pejoratively referred to as “voguespeak” or “Pangyo dialect.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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