What i have learnt.

This past week I have been reminded about the 8 word classes and their meanings. I have also been reminded about the 3 different types of sentence structures. Another thing I learnt would be about lexis, semantics, synonyms and antonyms along with figurative language, lexical/semantic fields and GRAMPS.

Bristolian dialect.

I read an article called 'Dialect guide is 'gurt lush'' about the Bristolian Dialect and i found it very interesting. It states how the language 'confuses the hell out of non-Bristolians' this shows how unique we are. I think most people from Bristol use the phrase 'wheres that to?' without even knowing it wasn't gramatically correct.  'Alright me babber' and 'Gert lush that is' are common phrases in the Bristolian language, along with 'Well nice' and 'Proper job'. As the younger generation are getting more techinical, words like 'Lol' and 'Soz' are being used more frequently too being shortened and abbreviations of words like 'Laugh out loud' and 'Sorry'.  The language is increasing rapidly all the time, new words being made and more people becoming familiar with the language. I think that people not from Bristol find the Bristolian language quite amusing, this making it become popular and then having t-shirts with common Bristolian phrases on and a Bristolian dictionary to help people understand.
Even though people say that Bristolians sound like a 'farmer' they are proud of their language, and where they come from.