Sentence examples for dialect of power from inspiring English sources

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For the individual looking for a higher education or trying to secure a decent job, what seems more humane: Admitting that, ugly, élitist, and unfair as it is, prescriptivism is currently the dialect of power and being able to manipulate that dialect can help you get ahead, or pretending that utopia is at hand, that everyone is a revolutionary, that linguistic anarchy will set you free?

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"My secondary tongue is standard English, a dialect of the seat of power, London".

Gautreaux has a mythic sense of plot, a keen ear for dialect and vivid powers of description, but subtle he ain't.

There is the dialect of preconceived zingers.

(Dari is a dialect of Persian).

Castilian dialect, Spanish Castellano, a dialect of the Spanish language, the basis of modern standard Spanish.

Modern literary Russian is based on the Central dialect of Moscow, having basically the consonant system of the Northern dialect and the vowel system of the Southern dialect.

There is the dialect of argumentative policy talking points.

The dialect of Lhasa is used as a lingua franca.

The people of Capua spoke the Oscan dialect of Italic.

Spin remains the dialect of politics, including at the White House.

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