As we have discussed, McNulty – at his most basic, a roguish, talented Irish-American cop – was an easy "in" for the viewer, a recognisable character you could latch on to in the first series as you got used to the unfamiliar settings and dialect and the relatively demanding style of writing.
The dialect takes getting used to, but the payoff is a musical brokenness to the language, which creaks along nicely with Saba's observations of her torn-up surroundings.
To that end the dialogue is in Aramaic and a dialect of Latin, which takes some getting used to but which dispenses with the stilted, awkward diction that afflicts so many biblical epics.
The words used to distinguish between dialect regions are often obscure, archaic terms which have disappeared from use.
There was wide diversity in the sounds, symbols, words, intonations, and dialect used to communicate, but the basic structure remained.
Mutual intelligibility is the linguistic criterion used to distinguish languages from dialects.
However, this is far less than the standard 80% measure used to determine whether related languages are actually dialects.
Rocco, the big-dorked Italian, and porno's premier buttbanger or assbuster (to use the dialect of this tribe).
Like Margaret Thatcher with her famous use of the dialect word "frit", Cameron likes to do the common man bit.
And the British Library wants to use it to capture dialects, accents, oral histories and neighbourhood soundscapes.
During the speech, Berlusconi is understood to have used a word from a Milanese dialect.
