Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
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When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history.
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But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men have left God not for gods, they say, but for no gods; and this has never happened before. That men both deny gods and worship gods, professing first Reason, and the money, and power, and what they call life, or race, or dialect.The church disowned, the tower overthrown, the bells upturned, what have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms upturned in an age which advances progressively backwards?
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There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properly be styled T...
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An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
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Acts 1:19:
Everyone in Jerusalem heard about this, so they called that field in their language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)
(NIV)
And all the residents of Jerusalem became acquainted with the facts, so that they called the piece of land in their own dialect--Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.
(AMP)
And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.
(KJV)
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A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
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