Summary Of The Disappearance Of Ocracoke Dialect

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According to the article, the disappearance of Ocracoke's dialect is inevitable. First, the author feels that the work to preserve the Ocracoke dialect is essential to the words: distinctive, unique, unusual, endangered, prominent, and crucial. Second, there are differences between the origin of the dialects linguists found and the folk legend tale. Folk legend claims that the dialects are a living form of English spoken in Shakespeare's time. But linguists don't think that, they think it just is an older feature of English that Ocracoke preserves. Third, I believe that languages continue to evolve with the human era, languages can not become a part of history, a line in a list. Based on the article "Although many older residents still speak