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user-inactivated · 4002 days ago · link · · parent · post: Spinoff Discussion: Can human languages vary in effectiveness when communicating specific ideas, feelings, topics, etc.
Thus one of my favorite aspects of Tolkien's writing -- the point has correctly been made that the English in which he wrote covered at least three such registers, probably more. A conscious decision to write the Hobbit in a 'low' dialect, the trilogy at a happy medium, and the Silmarillion among others in the classic high fantasy manner.English officially has one register.