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Randy_Tam wrote: I am only taking Mandarin as a complusory second language credit course, my L1 being Cantonese Chinese, now considered a 'dialect' for no justifiable reasons, as there has never been a clear distinction drawn between a 'dialect' and a 'language': do the 2 not share the very...

I don't think it is even theoretically possible that people use a 'Standard English' to communicate, even in a linguistically homogeneous community. Given the assumption that 'L1 Speakers of English have an idealized set of linguistic expressions (that can be generated from the grammar...