I think everybody code-switches to some degree, as long as there is some sort of reason to do so in their society. It doesn't mean they use two dialects just as a bilingual uses two languages, because people often respond to dialect as if it

Hello! I'm an undergraduate student and I'm obliged to deliver a so called "linguistic file" which shall provide rudimentary examples of applying linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax; three examples each) to everyday

It's my math training - any counterexample, no matter how far-fetched, etc... I often use "the fairy-tale scenario" myself as a method of disproving spurious assertions regarding syntax or morphology. I'm relying ... my theory;

Snarf! Or, indeed: ROTFL! But chaps, although you have done ... that the examples you've given have been a little non-usual. It's my math training - any counterexample, no matter how far-fetched, etc... I often use "the fairy-tale

Sorry if this isn't the best place to join the thread, but, as Eccles memorably said in reply to "What are you doing here?", "Everybody's got to be somewhere". I'm not getting a sense from the discussion of why it

The case system for nouns and pronouns, grafted onto English despite the lack of any separate forms for nouns but the possessive, You can get rid of the "but the possessive". Thank you kindly, sir. (separate point:) I almost said

There are two useful features of current English spelling which a reform would lose, and which I think are worth ... understand unusual or novel words. The second is that changing spelling would make the writing of past centuries less accessible.

I remember reading some years ago that Catapillar (the track-laying vehicle manufacturer) developed a simple English language for non-English speaking engineers. Here we see one of the problems with the dumbing-down movement. Caterpillar, Inc.

In everyday speech in Jewish schools and study halls in ... ones like it, is often used in other contexts also.(1)) This is a Yiddishism. Yiddish vocabulary has a large Hebrew component, and the way Yiddish accommodates Hebrew verbs into its ...

In everyday speech in Jewish schools and study halls in the States, where English is spoken but is peppered with ... is refering to a single male. But the phrase, or ones like it, is often used in other contexts also.(1)) This is a Yiddishism.