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  2. List of calques - Wikipedia

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    The calques manifest themselves as idioms and expressions and many have gone on to become clichés. However standalone words are very few. The following is a list of commonly used calque phrases/expressions.All of these are exact translations of the corresponding English phrases. Simha bhagam (സിംഹ ഭാഗം) lion's share

  3. Idiom - Wikipedia

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    For example, break a leg is an expression commonly said to wish a person good luck just prior to their giving a performance or presentation, which apparently wishes injury on them. However, the phrase likely comes from a loan translation from a phrase of German and Yiddish origin, which is why it makes no literal sense in English.

  4. Prosody (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Examples include the phrase, phraseme, constituent or interjection. Chunks commonly highlight lexical items or fixed expression idioms . Chunking prosody [ 15 ] is present on any complete utterance and may correspond to a syntactic category , but not necessarily.

  5. Fluency - Wikipedia

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    Fluency is a speech language pathology term which means the smoothness or flow with which sounds, syllables, words and phrases are joined when speaking quickly. [2] The term fluency disorder has been used as a collective term for cluttering and stuttering. Both disorders have breaks in the fluidity of speech, and both have the fluency breakdown ...

  6. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    For example, the phrase, "John, my best friend" uses the scheme known as apposition. Tropes (from Greek trepein, 'to turn') change the general meaning of words. An example of a trope is irony, which is the use of words to convey the opposite of their usual meaning ("For Brutus is an honorable man; / So are they all, all honorable men").

  7. List of Latin phrases (A) - Wikipedia

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    Translation Notes a bene placito: from one well pleased: i.e., "at will" or "at one's pleasure". This phrase, and its Italian (beneplacito) and Spanish (beneplácito) derivatives, are synonymous with the more common ad libitum (at pleasure). a capite ad calcem: from head to heel: i.e., "from top to bottom", "all the way through", or "from head ...

  8. Filler (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Every conversation involves turn-taking, which means that whenever someone wants to speak and hears a pause, they do so. Pauses are commonly used to indicate that someone's turn has ended, which can create confusion when someone has not finished a thought but has paused to form a thought; in order to prevent this confusion, they will use a filler word such as um, er, or uh.

  9. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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    Translation Notes a bene placito: from one well pleased: i.e., "at will" or "at one's pleasure". This phrase, and its Italian (beneplacito) and Spanish (beneplácito) derivatives, are synonymous with the more common ad libitum (at pleasure). a capite ad calcem: from head to heel: i.e., "from top to bottom", "all the way through", or "from head ...