Re: SV: Re: Some conlang questions
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 29, 2002, 5:38 |
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Michael Fors wrote:
> how would one go about making up dialects? i know that dialects are
> phonetic variations (?). Would one just modify the sounds a little bit, or
> is there more to a dialect than that?
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?")
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