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Discover LudwigThe phrase "avoid dialect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when advising someone to refrain from using regional or non-standard language variations in their writing or speech.
Example: "In academic writing, it's important to avoid dialect to ensure clarity and professionalism."
Alternatives: "steer clear of dialect" or "refrain from using dialect".
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And even a conscious attempt to avoid dialect features is not usually necessary.
Through education, most people learn to avoid dialect features and move along a continuum towards a well-known standard.
Creative writing students are taught to avoid dialect as it's hard to make it ring true, rather than sounding like a pastiche.
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While working on the manuscript she told Perkins she "deliberately avoided Negro dialect.
However, female speakers of all three dialects should unanimously avoid the variant more than male speakers in general due to its lower social status (i.e., Principle Ia).
Having styled the story like a silent movie, complete with title cards, to avoid having the actors speak in a historical dialect, Mr. Hou makes its silence enormously eloquent.
Furthermore, both indigenous and non-indigenous groups deal with similar aggregate variables (unemployment, price levels, etc).. Finally, only bilingual (Spanish and dialect speakers) indigenous individuals were chosen to avoid any influence that language discrimination may have.
Some of those who remained, in flats above their shops, kept the lights off to avoid detection and spoke in hushed tones lest their Mandarin dialect be heard on the streets by Tibetans.
In his widely circulated rules of writing, Leonard said, "Never open a book with weather; avoid prologues; keep your exclamation points under control; use regional dialect sparingly; avoid detailed descriptions of characters, places, and things; and try to leave out the part the readers tend to skip".
They also need to avoid hiring "tribes"—groups of workers from the same region, or who speak the same dialect.
Perhaps the memories of the Sinai expedition have had a salutary effect in causing him to avoid his previous belligerent provocations …" What follows are some of the questions and responses on Twitter, many in text-messaging dialect.
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