Familect
//ˈfæm.ɪˌlɛkt//
"Familect" in a Sentence (5 examples)
Near-synonym: microdialect
A familect is, as I mentioned before, a kind of microdialect.
David Crystal, who wrote the book's afterword, expanded on what he described as these dialects of the home, or familects, in his blog: [...]
Some followers even tweet back in aliebn-speak: a spirit of friendly linguistic play that's more like a familect than a stuffy Oxford Common Room.
If a familect exists within a family unit, then an online community’s fanilect expands exponentially, like invisible strings across distance and time.
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