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“Now, if Life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. Being happy does not mean everything is perfect. Alan Kennedy's Color/Language Project - The Idiom List. Paraprosdokians.
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Pragmatics. First published Tue Nov 28, 2006; substantive revision Mon Mar 21, 2011 These lines — also attributed to H.
L. Mencken and Carl Jung — may or may not be fair to diplomats, but are surely correct in reminding us that more is involved in what one communicates than what one literally says; more is involved in what one means than the standard, conventional meaning of the words one uses. The words ‘yes,’ ‘perhaps,’ and ‘no’ each has a perfectly identifiable meaning, known by every speaker of English (including not very competent ones). Don’t Mind Your Language… Language. Language, language, language. In the end it all comes down to language. I write to you today on this subject as a way of welcoming you to www.stephenfry.com 2.0 and because, well, it’s a subject worth thinking about at any time and because fewer things interest me quite so much. Image: Nicole Stewart for SamFry. Best toast I've ever heard... - Twurts and Geekery. Cookies by Douglas Adams.
Distinguishing blue from green in language. The application of terms to ranges of the visible spectrum are essentially arbitrary, cultural conventions.
The notion of "green" in modern European languages corresponds to about 520–570 nm, but many historical and non-European languages make other choices, e.g. using a term for the range of ca. 450–530 nm ("blue/green") and another for ca. 530–590 nm ("green/yellow") Many languages do not differentiate between certain colors on the visible spectrum and do not have separate terms for blue and green. They instead use a cover term for both (when the issue is discussed in linguistics, this cover term is sometimes called grue in English).
The exact definition of "blue" and "green" may be complicated by the speakers not primarily distinguishing the hue, but using terms that describe other color components such as saturation and luminosity, or other properties of the object being described. Semitic[edit] Arabic[edit] In Arabic the word for blue is generally azraq (أزرق). Hebrew[edit] Greek[edit]
AMPHIBOLIES. The Egg. The Egg By: Andy Weir You were on your way home when you died.
It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children.