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Re: [Ietf-languages] Language subtag registration form

Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org> Wed, 25 November 2020 04:48 UTC

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From: Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org>
To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>, Sebastian Drude <drude@xs4all.nl>
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John Cowan wrote:

> People do, however, belong to more than one social group.  My daughter
> speaks Standard English with me and AAVE with her friends, for
> example, even in the same conversation.  Neither would be appropriate
> for all circumstances.  The same is true of people who command both a
> local Arabic variety and Modern Standard Arabic.  Both of these are
> usually thought of as sociolects.

There's nothing inconsistent about an individual speaking in different
sociolects, certainly not if we allow that an individual can speak more
than one language. I suppose we all use different combinations of these
dimensions, consciously or not, at some point every day in our spoken
and/or written language.

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