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John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Wed, 25 November 2020 02:49 UTC

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On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 7:58 PM Sebastian Drude <drude@xs4all.nl> wrote:


> As to "Sociolect": A sociolect in principle is characteristic for a
> certain social group in *all* their utterances, not just deliberately
> applied in a subset of utterances -- this latter is exactly
> characteristic of registers.  So I would strongly suggest that the word
> be exchanged by "register".
>

I agree that either "register" or "chronolect" would be better in this
case.

John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org
C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant
le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux,
de rapport nyait pas.               --Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"

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