Colloquial language is casual and conversational: it's the difference between "What are you going to do?" and "Whatchagonnado?"
Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal;
Adjective S.
characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English"
a.
Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common
and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal;
as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style.
Colloquial
His [Johnson's] colloquial talents were, indeed, of the highest order.
Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal;
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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
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