Linguistics 5 Dialectology

Knowledge of this might not be public: Some Dialects are hyperbolic While speakers judge it not, feel it not, Quite sure hearers the raw message got In Igbo Language Dialects this clear Like a heaving chest or hands bare: In her North’s “My Mum is not alive” And Speaker means “Her mother is sick” But to Stranger “‘one you can’t revive; Date of her funeral to pick!” In one of her West’s “He just flees.” And Speaker thinks “He just runs.” But impressing an escape from bees Or fears of being brought down by guns! Time to look at one’s dialects And pleasure find in what one collects.