Vatsaloo picked up Srithap's Thai-Laotian dialect, and accompanied him back to his village--in those days, a three-day trip.
But the drinks are strong, and the locals - among them a few Long Island fishermen, known as Bonackers, or Bubbies (they once had their own dialect) - can't get enough of it.
There even seems to be a European-English dialect evolving that is well accepted and understood.
Tsiattista is a lively, impromptu oral poetry performed in Greek Cypriot dialect whereby one poet-singer attempts to outdo another with clever verses of rhyming couplets often performed to the accompaniment of the violin or lute.
Money is in Hokkien - the earthy dialect of Singapore's street stalls and not something the crisply laundered members of the investing community are normally anxious to be associated with.
Poets must be well-versed in the Greek Cypriot dialect, possess adequate knowledge of the popular poetry of Cyprus and the ability to retrieve existing, well-known Tsiattista and, above all, must be able to improvise a new couplet on a specific theme within very strict time constraints and be able to respond to his or her opponent.
An epochal advance in literature was Dante's The Divine Comedy, wherein he single-handedly took a dialect of Latin and virtually created the modern Italian language.
Today, watching a rangy, red-haired farmer on an Icelandic horse shouting at his long-haired Icelandic sheep in a largely unchanged dialect of Old Norse is the closest any of us will get to a Viking Jurassic Park.
There are also Creoles, who speak a Creole dialect of English and are often of African and African-European extraction, and Garifuna, who are descended from Carib Indians and Africans, as well as a number of smaller ethnic groups.
These jobs often involve local knowledge and range from things like checking what street signs say in rural Sudan for a satellite-navigation service to translating words into a Kenyan dialect for companies trying to spread their marketing.
He has also said he is self-conscious about the way he speaks, having been teased as a child about the dialect he grew up using in Georgia, and developed the habit of not asking questions at college and law school.
Specifically, at least 80% of its signs are distinct, while the rest come from ASL -- which he said is enough to characterize it as its own language, rather than a dialect.
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