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  2. Phatic expression - Wikipedia

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    Phatic communion denotationally breaks Grice's conversational maxims, because it gives information that is unnecessary, untrue, or irrelevant.It has important connotational meanings that do not break these maxims [6] and is best understood as an important part of language in its role in establishing, maintaining, and managing bonds of sociality between participants, [7] as well as creating ...

  3. Mind your Ps and Qs - Wikipedia

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    Mind your Ps and Qs is an English language expression meaning "mind your manners," "mind your language," "be on your best behaviour," or "watch what you're doing.". Attempts at explaining the origin of the phrase go back to the mid-19th century.

  4. Oi (interjection) - Wikipedia

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    Oi / ɔɪ / is an interjection used in various varieties of the English language, particularly Australian English, British English, Indian English, Irish English, New Zealand English, and South African English, as well as non-English languages such as Chinese, Tagalog, Tamil, Hindi/Urdu, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese to get the attention of another person or to express surprise or disapproval.

  5. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.

  6. Almaany - Wikipedia

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    Mahmoud Altarabin, assistant professor of translation and linguistics at Islamic University of Gaza, notes that while the machine translation of online translation platforms such as Almaany, Reverso Context, and Google Translate may be used to render translations of single phrases or words, those results should be edited to ensure that they ...

  7. Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Urdu in its less formalised register is known as rekhta (ریختہ, rek̤h̤tah, 'rough mixture', Urdu pronunciation:); the more formal register is sometimes referred to as زبانِ اُردُوئے معلّٰى, zabān-i Urdū-yi muʿallá, 'language of the exalted camp' (Urdu pronunciation: [zəbaːn eː ʊrdu eː moəllaː]) or لشکری ...

  8. Aasmanon Pay Likha - Wikipedia

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    Aasmanon Pay Likha (Urdu: آسمانوں پہ لکھا) (meaning Written on skies) is a TV show that aired on Geo Entertainment television. It stars Sajal Ali and Sheheryar Munawar in lead roles. Plot

  9. List of police-related slang terms - Wikipedia

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    An Urdu language word meaning egg, for the pure-white uniform of traffic police in urban Pakistani areas like Karachi. Askar/Askari A Somali term meaning “soldier” which is often used by Somali immigrants to the United Kingdom to refer to police. It is commonly used by rappers in UK drill. Aynasız