Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and ….
The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three dialects. I ….
The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth.
My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job..
I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself..
Welsh is now almost a national language in Wales. The Scottish dialects are reviving to some extent. I don't think it's a major thing, but it's there….
From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always b….
English has a better way with colloquialisms. It has colloquialisms that are colorful and expressive but not too heavy or distracting. In German, if ….
Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries..
When you get to speak Irish, you become more at one with yourself, you kind of have a spark when you use it, and I think it's a great dialect..
I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian..
He [Barack Obama] was light-skinned with no Negro dialect..
I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was..
If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the Igbo language, I write my own dialect. I wr….