Re:Facebook is wrong, text is deathless
by kwhitefoot on Sunday June 19, 2016 @12:23PM
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So there are no dialects in Finnish? I remember my Norwegian teacher telling me the same ludicrous thing 30 years ago when I moved to Norway.
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Re:Facebook is wrong, text is deathless
by Gravityloss on Sunday June 19, 2016 @04:27PM
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There are, like in most other places. What's usually written is the so called "general language". You can also speak that in a formal setting.
It's like in English, if you say "y'all" and write "ladies and gentlemen", you understand that those might mean roughly the same thing but are different words. It's not a spelling issue.
This is an important but hard to articulate distinction. Ask more if it's unclear...