alleryPrescription helps speakers of divergent dialects by doing what?
AEliminating every dialect
BProviding a shared idiom
CReplacing native languages
DHiding regional vocabulary
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Providing a shared idiom
1. Prescription supports inter-regional communication.
2. Speakers of divergent dialects understand a standardized idiom more readily than each other's dialects.
3. It does not erase dialects or replace native languages.
_Source: Wikipedia, Linguistic prescription, Aims_
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