dialect
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The new dialect will make it harder for humans to monitor what they are doing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Many deaf children in Kenya learn a patchwork of makeshift signs, and the local dialect lacks many technical terms used to teach subjects like maths and biology.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Yet the director considers the series’ standout moments to be those in Mallorquin, Nadal’s native Catalan dialect, in which the athlete appears at his most natural.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
He added: "It's the one that we suffer from the most - the social markers, the local dialect, who you are, and where you should be in life, because of how you speak."
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
The woman was glad to stop, she told Miyax in the Upick dialect, as she climbed from the sled.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
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The Prespa lakes region is home to herding peoples, the Vlachs and Sarakatsani, who seem to be vanishing, taking their dialects with them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Quebeckers accused him, among other things, of “glottophobia”—prejudice against dialects or accents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
It's not just the dialects that are disappearing, but also the traditions that came with them.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
At the back of the arena, a teleprompter keeps her on track, too - which is fair enough, when her album incorporates 14 different languages and dialects.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
A complete answer to that question would be long and complex, since Western music, like any living language shared by many different communities, has many "local dialects."
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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