Quotes on the topic: Dialect


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I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.


From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.


No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.


Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect.


Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.


I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.


An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.