By Dialects, Plurals

Respect is for high schools. You might want to say "hot" instead of "beautiful" or "yo" instead of "hi". Note: you might still be a dork anyway.What you are probably talking about is "integration". If you live in London and talk like a Texan for...

I agree with Jim. Native speakers decide what is correct. Of course, there are so many "kinds" of native speakers that you can't know everything about everyone's English usage... and not even about your own dialect, sometimes.Teacher: No, "my hair are black" is not ok....

Do you want some more examples? I can give you a lot! You won't believe it! Yeah, the net is a mess.As Jim said, in some languages hair is plural (mine too, and that's why I tend to make that mistake and use the plural). But on the other hand, optilang showed you how a certain...

The Chinese language has many dialects. We all share the same set of characters but these characters are pronounced differently in different dialects. Same characters different pronunciations. We don't say the characters belong to any one particular dialect. They are just Chinese...

It refers to the spoken language, not the writing. (Could you please elaborate on this? I believe Mandarin is the official Chinese dialect, both written and spoken.)

Yes, I understand that. But this usage would be very rare and most likely not in shortform.We don't use Mandarin to refer to the Chinese language. Mandarin is one spoken dialect of the Chinese language, albeit the official one and is taught all over the country. It refers to the spoken...

Hi Jackson,"In the Middle Ages “peoples” was not an uncommon word, but later writers grew wary of it because “people” has a collective, plural meaning which seemed to make “peoples” superfluous. It lived on in the sense of “nations” (“the peoples of the world”) and from this social scientists...

From answers.com: Speakers of some vernacular American dialects, particularly in the South, may use the possessive reflexive form hisself instead of himself (as in He cut hisself shaving) and theirselves or theirself for themselves (as in They found theirselves alone). These forms reflect the...

Ok Tanit, so it's not just me! You know, what remains of my poor Italian is strongly influenced by my dialect...And you know what I just found out? That this fact (the problem of choosing a plural or singular verb) occours when the subject is different:I'm one of those people who know/knows...You...

I just did a little search on the net and found out that people really don't use those kinds of expressions. So it must be that, as you all say, collective nouns are not good in the structures I wanted to use. I thought they were possible, that's why I asked. Oddly enough, I often use those...