Got a Doubt ! Wanting for your Help ! Plz make it ASAP !

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Wed Nov 27 03:19:13 EST 2013


On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Antoon Pardon
<antoon.pardon at rece.vub.ac.be> wrote:
> However that second sentence doesn't make much sense to me. Modern
> languages contain a subset that is called the standard language. This
> is the subset that is generally taught. Especially to those for whom
> the language is foreign. So when you define a specific language to
> use on an international forum, it is strongly suggested that people
> limit themselves to the standard subset and don't use dialects since
> "dialect" AFAIU means it is outside this standard.

Do you mean standard British English, standard American English,
standard Australian English, or some other?

ChrisA



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