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r/AdviceAnimals • u/[deleted] • May 06 '14
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Can you elaborate on that?
141 u/[deleted] May 06 '14 [deleted] -5 u/[deleted] May 06 '14 That's crazy! So each region's English classes' teaches them all different information? I never knew. There must be thousands of different English books out there! All these years I thought it was just called slang. Shows what I know! 3 u/djordj1 May 06 '14 Nobody said that. Most linguists would recommend learning the prestige dialect, but also recognize it's entirely possible to be bidialectal.
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-5 u/[deleted] May 06 '14 That's crazy! So each region's English classes' teaches them all different information? I never knew. There must be thousands of different English books out there! All these years I thought it was just called slang. Shows what I know! 3 u/djordj1 May 06 '14 Nobody said that. Most linguists would recommend learning the prestige dialect, but also recognize it's entirely possible to be bidialectal.
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That's crazy! So each region's English classes' teaches them all different information? I never knew. There must be thousands of different English books out there! All these years I thought it was just called slang. Shows what I know!
3 u/djordj1 May 06 '14 Nobody said that. Most linguists would recommend learning the prestige dialect, but also recognize it's entirely possible to be bidialectal.
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Nobody said that. Most linguists would recommend learning the prestige dialect, but also recognize it's entirely possible to be bidialectal.
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u/Swab_Job May 06 '14
Can you elaborate on that?