• OfCourseNot@fedia.io
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    4 months ago

    Yeah maybe not even non-standard as much as non-formal in this case.

    I wanted to mean ‘different from what you learn in English class in school as a kid’ so non-formal, non -standard, dialectal, slang, misspellings, same-sounding words…

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      4 months ago

      That’s all covered by “non-standard” - because the standard of a language dictates what’s to be taken as informal/vulgar/archaic, dialectal, slang, different words or the same word, etc. And while there are exceptions most of the time when people learn a non-native language they learn the standard, in detriment of other varieties.

      (Sorry for nerding out about this, I just love this sort of topic.)