Talk:Variety (linguistics)

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[edit] Lect

I merged "Lect" here. It was a stub about an apparent synonym for "language variety".

"Lect" is also a neologism.

• It is not used in the recent introductory textbook on linguistics that I read (Edward Finegan, Language: Its Structure and Use third edition, 1999).
• It is not in the reasonably good English dictionary that I have at hand (Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 9th edition).
• There are no independent results for Google search "define:lect".

However, I don't have any sources in sociolinguistics. If anyone finds out that in fact a "lect" is not the same as a "language variety", please revert this merge. In that case, please add information to differentiate the terms from each other. --Hoziron 09:08, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Use of Conditional Mood

"For instance English journalists or lawyers often use grammatical moods such as subjunctive mood or conditional mood, which are no longer used frequently by other speakers." Subjunctive is fairly rare, but is that really true for conditional? Ardric47 04:34, 17 May 2006 (UTC)