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The structure of Proto-Indo-Aryan must have been similar to that of early Vedic, albeit with dialect variations.
Also from Yorkshire was Blake Morrison, whose finest work, "The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper" (1987), was composed in taut, macabre stanzas thickened with dialect.
Kelman shows rather than tells par excellence, narrating the entire novel through Murdo's consciousness, replete with dialect such as "didnay" and "jeesoh".
Touched by romance though they were, these fictional works were transitional to realism, for they did portray common folk sympathetically; they did concern themselves with dialect and mores; and some at least avoided older sentimental or romantic formulas.
Some of his contemporaries thought he could be a greater writer if only he would stop messing about with dialect, but Barnes replied that his dialect poems were not simply about the local people but were for them.
The only real problem with dialect, Dr. Hazen said, is the prejudice of outsiders who rate some people as inferior and deny them opportunities because of the way they talk.
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The Old Indo-Aryan and Middle Indo-Aryan stages, then, present a picture of concurrent vernaculars with dialects and literary languages influenced by the vernaculars.
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