The basilect a 'low' social dialect, used colloquially as a kind ofpatois.
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It was becoming a merepatoisof chance and trick unworthy of the respect of the learned.
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In thepatoisof sketch writers, he made a speech which would normally be described as "robust".
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I am sure that that is not the properpatoison some occasions but the meaning is clear.
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Its local speech is characterized as apatois.
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The word dreevay ispatoisfor knocking about.
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The title had been subtly altered to feature thepatoisdutchie, referring to a type of pot used for cooking.
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But now critics were writing that it was being played for laughs, with the swearing self-conscious rather than part of thepatois.
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Some of the oldest inhabitants are able to speak in the localpatois, an ancient language of the area.
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At that time, writing poetry in thepatoisused in day-to-day speech was very unusual, and publishing without a translation was a bold step.
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Its name would come from hemp (in localpatois: chorbe or chorve).
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There are passages on the taste of local foods, the strangepatois, mitigated by methodical learning.
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At the same time, it was disparaged as apatois.
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It is particularly used among the older generation, which also speaks a language known aspatois.
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The twin sisters were inseparable and their particular high-speedpatoismade it difficult for people outside their immediate family to understand them.
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