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Re:Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is takin... by Koshkin on Friday July 27, 2018 @04:41PM (#17629178)
How many languages have these sub-languages "baked in"?
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Re:Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is takin... by saget on Friday July 27, 2018 @05:00PM (#17629361)
I don't know about all languages but Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, and Mandarin all have many formal and informal conjugations of words
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Re:Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is takin... by spraak on Friday July 27, 2018 @10:01PM (#17631063)
Tibetan is very interesting in this way. Standard/Lhasa Tibetan has itself many registers, and then there is Classic Tibetan, Literary Tibetan, and I forget the proper term but there are also secret/esoteric forms specific to e.g. certain Buddhist and Bön teachings
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