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Example sentences for: idiolect
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Obsessivism chatters to itself in a bizarre idiolect.
Everyone has his own private view of how language works, an observation seldom offered by linguists, even those who touch on the subject of idiolect.
Quang Phuc Dong's English Sentences Without Overt Grammatical Subject looks at the oft-questioned basis of fuck you!, whilst Munç Wang's Copulative Sentences in English: A Germanic Language Spoken in Northern Delaware studies the grammaticality (in the author's idiolect) of such sentences as Micky fucked Michelle's cadaver in the ass (grammatical), Bret fucked the mannikin through the hole he drilled in its throat (of questionable grammaticality), and Fred fucked the log through a hole that squirrels had made (ungrammatical).
In Professor Spevack's concise (6 pp.) and witty Preface, he defines his broader purpose in compiling this treasury of Shakespeare's idiolect as an attempt to mirror, not only the figurative universe of Shakespeare's words, but the literal world of the Elizabethan age as well.