A had been brought up in a rural village in the south of Sichuan, and so was fluent in the local dialect and conversant with the colloquial words and phrases used in general conversation. A was eager to work alongside a more experienced colleague to prepare for her future studies and gather...
Both words could be used for the same thing depending on whether conceptual individual units are considered or ignored, e.g. less salt vs. fewer grains of salt. It actually sounds likefeweris for plural nouns andlessis for singular nouns. ...
Commonly misused words and phrases«12345» Reply 41 of 91 mark w Posts: 13 August 11, 2008 6:00PM My favourites are when people say: - Brought instead of bought and vice versa. - Generally instead of genuinely and vice versa. - i.e. instead of e.g. and vice versa. ...
That being said, arahants and Buddha wanted the most essential dhammic points to be saved, and they are all there in the texts, repeated many times, sometimes with different words and phrases. That was, in their view, enough for a wise person to get a stream-entry (as it has always ...
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Shakespeare heard sound first then the words were there in his QUICK HEAD). “Well/To the end of fray and the beginning of a feast/ Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest” he adds— and everybody knows how folk sayings always seem to pop out of tongue-sounds instead of out of “thi...
(his later similarity to Nick Cave is, we are assured by the director, completely co-incidental). And this is just a random pick from so many. The film has even given cult filmdom a couple of favourite phrases in "Christ, kid, you're a weirdo" and "Well if that's all there is....
the Cantonese track is the more authentic of the two, with the English dub having the usual collection voices that are mismatched to the characters they are dubbing and the dialogue has been altered to provide English phrases that run for as long as a character speaks. That said, I’ve hea...
My supervisor was giving a talk where I took notes on every use of the words "literally" and "actually." I lost my notes (a full page that would probably get me fired if it found its way to my boss) but I wil never forget:"I'm sorry Mrs. Suchandso cannot be here, she is ...
I thought it was "between you and myself."It seems that using the word "me" shows how you're not very edumacated because "myself" has twice as many syllables! Therefore, it has to be correct... uh, I mean absolutely correct.Using "absolutely" as an answer is one way to ...