Talk:Colloquialism
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Is this substantially different than slang? (anon)
- I've listed on wikipedia:duplicate articles
- Slang is the language usage of a particular group of people, while colloquial is closer to conversational. So "yur" is a colloquial form of "your", not slang. Tom Sawyer is colloquial, but not heavy in slang. e.g its moi and not its me KellyCoinGuy
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- I don't understand this distinction. Don't all words have a limited scope of people who use them? Isn't slang also used in conversational speech? Isn't "yur" just a phonetic spelling of a de-emphasized "your", rather than a separate word? Yes i think so too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!--DocumentN 03:07, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
Should this be moved to wiktionary:Colloquialism?
Noldoaran 21:56, Nov 27, 2003 (UTC)
- Not necessarily... although there should be an entry there, this article has a lot of legs, as it could start listing colloquialisms... KellyCoinGuy
The most interesting question is where do colloquial phrases go? In wikitionary or here? We have Category:English phrases here in Wikipedia, but no such category for colloquial expressions. It would be really nice to have such a collection somewhere... is there already a place? KellyCoinGuy
[edit] "immaculate conception"
What are the two meanings of "immaculate conception"? Is the religious meaning the formal meaning or the colloquial meaning? --Gbleem 05:03, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
- I removed this as both it and the other example are not correct. Rmhermen 17:11, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
- Examples
Does anyone think some examples of colloquialisms would be helpful he? Yayaja67
[edit] External Link
Why is figarospeech.com in the links for this page? Are all colloquialisms figures of speech, or are all figures of speech colloquialisms? Atreys 16:57, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
