February 01, 2011
Do You Speak A Language Or A Dialect?
I usually think of a language as a the major - and for the most part, stable - body of language and a dialect as a...
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January 30, 2010
English Vagueness
Every language has its trips and traps. English, for a variety of reasons, seems to have more than its share. Consider, for example, some extremely common words, phrases and areas of miscommunication. When you are at a meal, for example and you say that something is "hot" do you mean hot as in spicy or hot as in...
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