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Show MANY AND STRANGE DIALECTS la Standardising Her Language China I Facing a Problem England Has Net Yet Solved. China will have to start on a kind ef standardisation or ber language, a w started, seriously, in the fourteenth century. It isn't only a matter of words aad grammar; more important still are construction and pronunciation. pronuncia-tion. Our English dialects an probably prob-ably as divers as any. Put a Cornlah mlacr and a Northumberland minor together for the fint time and each would only have a faint glimmering of tbe meaning of th other's speech. What would th Cornish man think of "Whet mak' o' yan la ehar H would sx press th sam meaning la -What be her tlk. thenr Th ordinary English, Eng-lish, of course, is "What la ah llkr I bar knowa a Londoner, fresh to th fin Dorset dialect, completely bewildered bewil-dered by a farm laborer's tali: be could only get a glint of meaning hr aad than. London Chronic!. |