Rev. Onan Canobite, SubGenius on Nostr: Inside jokes and slang within dialects, dialects and accents within languages, ...

Inside jokes and slang within dialects, dialects and accents within languages, creoles along the margins of languages, but few clear boundaries. One flowing into and out of the other, boiling like a pot of water, changing and changing.

The written word, then radio, then television, crystallized parts of the boiling pot. Grammar of rules and exceptions codified, with right way and wrong way.

The function of language is to exclude understanding; otherwise we would have one language.