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Why is Standard English Bad?
Standard English is the literary dialect. It is not "bad."
Is formal English a standard English?
Formal English is THE standard English. This is in oppsoition to informal English which is spoken English and includes slang and colloquialisms.
What is Standard American English?
The most widely understood English dialect
Is a dialect considered standard English?
No, a dialect is a regional or social variety of a language that differs from the standard form. Standard English refers to the form of English that is widely accepted as the correct and proper way to speak and write the language.
Why teach standard English?
Standard English is the literary dialect, which everyone understands even if they don't speak it at home.
Which is most widely understood dialect?
Standard american english
What is the best translation into standard English of this piece of dialect from Hurston's Sweat Sykes what you throw dat whip on me like dat?
"Sykes, why did you throw that whip on me like that?" is the best translation into Standard English of this piece of dialect.
What is a non-standard English?
"Standard English" is the literary dialect used in formal writing and in the speech of well educated persons. It descends from the West Saxon dialect of Old English, specifically the dialect of London. "Non-standard English" includes many regional dialects, whose grammatical forms and words ( such as ain't and varmint, for example) are not exactly incorrect but are unsuited to formal discourse; and the non-regional dialect known as Black English ( or Ebonics ) which has a prominent substrate of African grammar. There is another literary dialect called Scots ( or Lallands or Doric ) which is considered non-standard because descends from the Anglic dialect of Old English, not the Saxon.
The vocabulary of Standard English is more limited than that of nonstandard English?
Hardly. There are many forms of non-Standard English, and they all have far more limited vocabularies than Standard English - which is the literary dialect, after all.
Is wid a word?
Yes, "wid" is a word, but it is not standard English. It is a dialect or slang abbreviation for "with."
What lgauge do they use in Brisbane?
The literary dialect is called Australian Standard English, or Standard English for short. Popular speech is commonly called English or Australian (pronounced "strine").
Is American English a dialect of British English?
Not really. In conventional usages, the term "dialect" is usually reserved for variations within the Standard English varieties of the various nation-states where English is the dominant tongue--e.g., American English, Australian English, Canadian English.
