Sentence examples for slang dialect from inspiring English sources

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In Sheng, an urban slang dialect of Kiswahili.

He loves the way in which Gadda employs non-literary Italian in his masterpiece - slang, dialect terms and phrases, even the dry language of academic textbooks.

The study of language because it is interesting in its own right which leads to serious examination of slang, dialect, informal usage, mistakes and all did not much occur to Johnson, nor much to anyone else in 1755.

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Skaz, in Russian literature, a written narrative that imitates a spontaneous oral account in its use of dialect, slang, and the peculiar idiom of that persona.

But as Lagos has gentrified over the last decade, sprouting with trees and parks, street markets reincarnated as shopping complexes, intersections colonised by Domino's Pizza and Cold Stone ice cream, there has been a new wave of indigenous or dialectical rap music – hip-hop that fuses street slang with native dialect.

Well, it's also about word meanings, dialect, slang, derivations and so on, but there are plenty of apostrophes and semicolons too.

Döblin's pinpoint use of dialect, slang, and jargon renders "Berlin Alexanderplatz" even less exportable than most modernist tours de force, but the veteran translator Michael Hofmann, in his fluid, absorbing new version for New York Review Books, has found plausible equivalents, largely British in flavor.

As this Ballad series was commissioned as part of the BBC's Voices project, the songwriters used dialect, slang and shared experience to inform their songs, and John Tams accompanied Parker and Hunt on several interview-gathering trips to fairgrounds and steelworks.

Welsh is "good for 1,300 unique slang terms", among them keelie, cludgie, pagger, jammy, pish, stoat-the-baw, schemie, ganting, Jambo and swedge – though it is not always clear which words are slang, which are dialect, and which are Welsh's invention.

It will be declaimed in every language, dialect, slang and patois.

–Incorporate local dialects, slang and customs into compliance policies and training programs.

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