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Example sentences for: nonstandard

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(I hesitate to refer to dialects as standard or nonstandard, since it seems to me to give the game away.)
Most authors therefore limit nonstandard forms to small sections of direct speech, and only rarely are major characters given much nonstandard dialogue.
Moreover, the fact that Kinsey had a sexual life, however nonstandard it was, would not render him incapable of objectivity in writing about sex.
It seems unnecessary, when we have available terms like informal, colloquial, formal, nonstandard, literary, poetic , and even conversational (though I have never seen the last used), to come up with still another set of labels, but Jules Hook, the author of a number of responsible and useful works dealing with English, feels that FF and SWE (for `family and friends' and `standard written English,' respectively) tell the user something that he might not already know or feel about usages of borderline words.
Put another way, the acceptance of nonstandard language to replace the comfortable protection offered by linguistic purism amounts to moving the goalposts in a game that they have been playing for their entire lives according to a different set of rules.