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you all are not (colloquial/Southern American English) y’at: you at yes’m: yes madam / yes ma’am y'ever: have you ever y’know: you know yessir: yes sir you’d: you had / you would you’dn’t’ve: you would not have / you wouldn’t have you’ll: you shall / you will you’re: you are you’ve: you have
Not all accounts of the Dunning–Kruger effect focus on its negative sides. Some also concentrate on its positive sides, e.g. that ignorance is sometimes bliss. In this sense, optimism can lead people to experience their situation more positively, and overconfidence may help them achieve even unrealistic goals. [51]
This is typically used to convey a different shade of meaning from a strictly positive sentence ("You're not unattractive" vs "You're attractive"). Multiple negation is the more general term referring to the occurrence of more than one negative in a clause. In some languages, double negatives cancel one another and produce an affirmative; in ...
You might be surprised by how many popular movie quotes you're remembering just a bit wrong. 'The Wizard of Oz' Though most people say 'Looks like we're not in Kansas anymore,' or 'Toto, I don't think
The second single from R.E.M.’s third album, Fables of the Reconstruction, “Driver 8” is one of the group’s best-known songs, with quotable lyrics (which is almost unheard of for a pre-Out ...
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You aren't gonna need it" [1] [2] (YAGNI) [3] is a principle which arose from extreme programming (XP) that states a programmer should not add functionality until deemed necessary. [4] Other forms of the phrase include "You aren't going to need it" (YAGTNI) [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and "You ain't gonna need it".
Lloyd Bentsen Dan Quayle "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" was a remark made during the 1988 United States vice presidential debate by Democratic nominee Senator Lloyd Bentsen to Republican nominee Senator Dan Quayle in response to Quayle's comparison of his experience in Congress to that of John F. Kennedy, the Democratic 35th president of the United States, whom Bentsen knew from their time ...