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em: older sister: a non-elderly woman; a woman who's a little older, like one's own "big sister"; can be used as a romantic term of endearment: em: anh or chị: younger sibling: a person who's a little younger, like one's own "little sibling"; a student; can be used as a romantic term of endearment: con: cha, mẹ, bà, etc. biological child ...
The stage name Nguyen Anh 9 was given by his first lover. He said in an interview: "This is the name she gave me. When I wrote the first songs, the real name Nguyen Dinh Anh was too long and Nguyen Anh was the name of the Emperor Gia Long. Therefore, she said there were 9 letters in Nguyen Anh and number 9 was a lucky number according to ...
Đám cưới chuột (Rat's wedding), a popular example of Đông Hồ painting. Ðông Hồ painting (Vietnamese: Tranh Đông Hồ or Tranh làng Hồ), full name Đông Hồ folk woodcut painting (Tranh khắc gỗ dân gian Đông Hồ) is a line of Vietnamese folk painting originating in Đông Hồ village (Song Hồ commune, Thuận Thành District, Bắc Ninh Province).
Complimentary language is a speech act that caters to positive face needs. Positive face, according to Brown and Levinson, is "the positive consistent self-image or 'personality' (crucially including the desire that this self-image be appreciated and approved of) claimed by interactions". [1]
In many non-theoretical grammars, the terms subject complement (also called a predicative of the subject) and object complement are employed to denote the predicative expressions (predicative complements), such as predicative adjectives and nominals (also called a predicative nominative or predicate nominative), that serve to assign a property to a subject or an object: [3]
Example of compliments slip, 1951. A compliments slip (or with compliments slip) is a slip of paper that contains the same name and address information that would be on a letterhead of formal letter stationery, the pre-printed salutation "with compliments" or "with our/my compliments", and space afterwards for a short handwritten message to be added.
A compliment sandwich, [1] praise sandwich, or feedback sandwich is a rhetorical technique to deliver criticism in a way that it is accepted by the criticized person. It is named after the metaphor of a sandwich since it has three parts: [2] Praise of the addressee; Expressing what the speaker dislikes about the person; Further praise of the ...
la sai – (From Hokkien/Teochew, lit. 'stir shit') Create trouble. lagi – (From Malay) Means to want more of something. leh – (From Hokkien 咧 ) Tagged at the end of a sentence in a similar manner as "lah".