Sentence examples for one dialect from inspiring English sources
Thus, speakers of dialects as divergent as Mandarin and Cantonese can communicate with one another in writing, with each character encoding the same meaning — "house," "blue," "think," and so on — regardless of its pronunciation in any one dialect.
In Chinese, nouns tend to be the same (same etymon) all across the dialectal range (the Sinitic languages); whereas verbs may differ from one dialect to the next – almost from one village to the next, in the old days (Halliday 2005, ch. 4).
No one dialect is better at communicating meaning than another.
One dialect which is still widely used today is the Kansai dialect (spoken in the cities of Kyoto and Osaka).
Why, we might ask, is one dialect poet now forgotten while the other is a global commodity?
What "Django Unchained" and "Vampire Hunter" have accomplished is akin to what linguists call "code switching," or fluidly shifting from one dialect to another.
For practical reasons during the summer, we will focus on one specific dialect, for example the Wu dialect or the Chuan dialect.
He's a master of voices -- high-pitched squeaky ones, deep ones, funny ones, scary ones, dialects of all sorts, you name it.
The term kwashiorkor means "deposed child" ("deposed" from the mother's breast by a newborn sibling) in one African dialect and "red boy" in another dialect.
I collect dialects". Although many think of Massachusetts as having one distinct dialect, it actually has four.
On the other hand, another might say that, since Mandarin is one Chinese dialect and Taiwanese another, why accord official status to one and not to the other?
