Colloquial and Dialect

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Colloquial adjective - Used in or suitable for speech and not formal writing.

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Dialect and colloquial are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Dialect" instead a noun "Colloquial".

Dialect noun - The special terms or expressions of a particular group or field.

Usage example: the promotional team for the new computer used a dialect full of acronyms that the press found difficult to follow

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Colloquial and dialect are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Colloquial" instead a noun "Dialect".

In The Catcher in the Rye, the narrator, Holden Caulfield, accurately represented the colloquial teenage dialect of the era.

Source: All First Person Narrators Write Like Novelists
Despite this, it is also the only Chinese dialect with an actively used written form, even it's only used in the colloquial.

Source: Useful Notes / Chinese Dialects and Accents
Trev's attempts to teach Nutt to use colloquial street-dialect rather than formal Morporkian could also be considered this trope, although he's even less conscious of what he's doing.

Source: Discworld / Unseen Academicals

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