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| has gloss | (noun) the use of misspellings to identify a colloquial or uneducated speaker eye dialect |
| has gloss | eng: Eye dialect is the deliberate use of non-standard spelling to draw attention to pronunciation. There is some disagreement on what constitutes eye dialect and what constitutes phonetic spelling. For some, eye dialect is the literary technique of using non-standard spelling to approximate a pronunciation that is actually no different from the standard pronunciation but has the effect of dialectal, foreign, or uneducated speech. This definition of eye dialect differs from others in that a difference in spelling doesnt indicate a difference in pronunciation of a word. For example, spelling was as wuz does not indicate an unusual pronunciation but is used to suggest that a character has non-standard speech of some sort as well as to alter a readers perception of a speaker. In this latter definition, eye dialect may act as a relatively faithful representation of a non-standard pronunciation. For example, where Standard English has word-initial , African American Vernacular English (as well as a number of other English dialects) has word-initial instead; therefore, an author might write that as dat in the speech of African American characters. |
| lexicalization | eng: Eye Dialect |
| subclass of | (noun) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent"; "it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy" idiom, dialect, accent |
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| lexicalization | kor: 시각와어 |
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| similar | e/Eye dialect |
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