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[Benjamin Barrett]

I have dialects when I write. Whether it's spelling choices, words,
grammar, or semantics, my writing is most certainly different from that
of people with other dialects.

Benjamin Barrett
a cyberbreath for language life
livinglanguages.wordpress.com

Tom Zurinskas wrote:
> As an ideal, dialectical differences are not good.  The purpose of speech is
> to communicate.  Any alterations that lessen this is not a good thing.   We
> don't have dialects when we write, why should we in this day and age have
> them when we talk.

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