Re: SV: Re: Some conlang questions

--- Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> wrote:

> Actually, dialects are more than just phonetic
> variations.  Purely
> phonetic differences are accents.  A dialect
> has, at the very least,
> differences in vocabulary, and usually a few
> grammatical differences.
> Like, in English, the second person plural
> varies by dialect between
> "you", "you all", "y'all", "youse", "you guys",
> "you-uns", "you people",
> and probably a few more options.  Also, some
> dialects accept double
> negatives.  Standard English does not accept
> double modals (like, "might
> can" or "should ought"), but some dialects do
> permit it.  Standard
> English uses inversion with wh-words, but some
> dialects don't ("What you
> did?")
A lot of that smacks as much of register as of
dialect. (At least for me!) I consider myself a
speaker of "Standard" - but depending on
register, double negatives, double modals, odd
pronouns and other kinds of lexical and argot
oddities creep in. In the other direction, if the
situation be more formal, then all those res
dictae fly the country in favor of a more
confined style with attendant subjunctives, fully
enunciated and single modals and the rest. Well,
maybe not the subjunctives, as I use those as a
matter of course anyway.

Of course, that raises an adjunct question: has
anyone worked on registers within their conlangs?

Padraic.


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beuyont alch geont la ciay la cina
mangeiont alch geont y faues la lima;
     pe' ne m' molestyont
     que faciont
doazque y facyont in rima.

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