Talk:Register (sociolinguistics)

message: I found this sentence in a Hungarian source (my own translation into English):
:G.B. Shaw once said that he spoke “English” in three different languages: he uses one for writing his plays, he uses the other when arranging official functions of life, and he uses the third with his intimate friends; these three languages are quite dissimilar to each other.
Could you possibly help me find the original English quotation by Shaw himself? (Maybe it's related to the topic of this article.)
Adam78 14:38, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  G.B. Shaw quotation 

message: Hello. Does someone know much about the cross-linguistic variation of register usage? I'm a native Hebrew speaker, and I have noticed that "contractions" seem to be associated with more formal registers than "full" forms, which is strikingly contradictory with English usage- though this might have to do with these "contractions" preserving synthetic aspects of Biblical Hebrew which are being lost in Modern Standard Hebrew, which is increasingly analytic. (As an example, "anu" is the formal variant of "anakhnu", the first person plural pronoun)
This is all mere anecdote, unfit for encyclopedic formats. I was mostly wondering if others thought this might be a good research thread to expand the article, in which case I will try to find some scholarly works on the subject. JonathanHopeThisIsUnique (talk) 21:24, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Question

message: Added citation flag because all the in-line citations are in APA style, not in Wiki style. 
I may come back and try to fix them at some point but have a few things higher on my queue.
Elizabeth.f.chamberlain (talk) 05:42, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no single "Wiki style" for citations; see WP:CITEVAR. Either parenthetical citations (as used in this article) or footnotes are acceptable, as long as an article is internally consistent. That said, I do not personally object if User:Elizabeth.f.chamberlain or others want to change this article. It might be best to ensure there is consensus for such a move, though. Cnilep (talk) 06:19, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the heads up; I clearly ought to read deeper in the style manual than I have. Came in with the thought of responding to the [who?] flag in the lead but realized all the rest of the citations weren't what I expected. I'll remove the citation flag and respond to [who?] with consistent citations without changing the whole thing. Elizabeth.f.chamberlain (talk) 19:07, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations 

message: The page on Style says 'register' and 'style' are sometimes considered interchangeable. This page literally uses the word 'style' to refer to registers. I propose that either:
- these pages should be merged; or
- the language should be cleaned up so as to retain their distinctness.
In the second case, it would be beneficial to explain the difference between them on one or both pages. I have no idea what the difference might be; in my education, we referred only to register.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Apollo reactor (talk • contribs) 17:11, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Register vs Style