:-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"

[Tom Zurinskas]

Funny I've never heard anyone say "What register do you speak"?  They might answer "I''m a registered Democrat.

 

Perhaps we should be more scientific and call ourselves the "American Register Society".  But I think we'd be making ARS's of ourselves.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+ 
see truespel.com phonetic spelling


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> At 1:34 AM +0000 1/16/10, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
> >Register? Not nearly as clear as "dialect"
> 
> Actually "register" is a lot clearer than "dialect" if you want to
> refer to register. Your observation is like saying we shouldn't
> refer to lymphoma because it's not nearly as clear as cancer or that
> we shouldn't refer to fricatives or stops because that's not nearly
> as clear as consonants.
> 
> LH
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> >Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
> >see truespel.com phonetic spelling
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> >> > Well, maybe we need to start putting "dialect" in after "Standard
> >> > English". I think I might start putting "Standard American Written
> >> > English dialect" in my composition syllabus to emphasize its
> >> > linguistic parity with Appalachian dialects, Southern dialects, etc.
> >> >
> >> > ---Amy West
> >>
> >> I'd concur with this, Amy, but reword as "Standard American Written English
> >> Register."
> >>
> >> The wording of the syllabus description would, of course, be
> >> self-referential, being written in SAWER.
> >>
> >> Robin Hamilton
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