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Pygmalion
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- The modern concierge's daughter who fulfils her ambition by playing the Queen of Spain in Ruy Blas at the Theatre Francais is only one of many thousands of men and women who have sloughed off their native dialects and acquired a new tongue.†
Act 5dialects = regional varieties of a language
- An honest and natural slum dialect is more tolerable than the attempt of a phonetically untaught person to imitate the vulgar dialect of the golf club; and I am sorry to say that in spite of the efforts of our Academy of Dramatic Art, there is still too much sham golfing English on our stage, and too little of the noble English of Forbes Robertson.†
Act 5dialect = regional variety of a language
- An honest and natural slum dialect is more tolerable than the attempt of a phonetically untaught person to imitate the vulgar dialect of the golf club; and I am sorry to say that in spite of the efforts of our Academy of Dramatic Art, there is still too much sham golfing English on our stage, and too little of the noble English of Forbes Robertson.†
Act 5
- [Here, with apologies, this desperate attempt to represent her dialect without a phonetic alphabet must be abandoned as unintelligible outside London.†
Act 1
- I am myself a student of Indian dialects;
Act 1 *dialects = regional varieties of a language
- No. I mean his dialect.†
Act 2dialect = regional variety of a language
- We work together at my Indian Dialects; and we think it more convenient— MRS. HIGGINS.†
Act 3dialects = regional varieties of a language
- Continental dialects, African dialects, Hottentot PICKERING.†
Act 3
- Continental dialects, African dialects, Hottentot PICKERING.†
Act 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(dialect) a regional variety of a languageA dialect can use a different accent, vocabulary, and grammar than other dialects of the same language.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)