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"I think we agree, the past is over." [12] [13] – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 10, 2000; to his former primary election rival John McCain “We can have filters on Internets where public money is spent.” – during his third Presidential debate with Al Gore, October 17, 2000 [14] "They misunderestimated me."
A paraphrase can be introduced with verbum dicendi—a declaratory expression to signal the transition to the paraphrase. For example, in "The author states 'The signal was red,' that is, the train was not allowed to proceed," the that is signals the paraphrase that follows. A paraphrase does not need to accompany a direct quotation. [20]
For example, if learners do not know the word grandfather they may paraphrase it by saying "my father's father". Semantic avoidance Learners may avoid a problematic word by using a different one, for example substituting the irregular verb make with the regular verb ask. The regularity of "ask" makes it easier to use correctly. [2] Word coinage
Paraphrase may apply to music as well as to writing. It was commonplace for Baroque, Classical and Romantic composers to create variations on each other's work without permission. This would not be allowed today. [14]
Untranslatability is the property of text or speech for which no equivalent can be found when translated into another (given) language. A text that is considered to be untranslatable is considered a lacuna, or lexical gap.
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
What you have to understand is we have seen it all before; every argument, appeal to logic or rhetorical tactic you can think of we have dealt with many times before you ever thought of trying it. If you can think of it, so can we. Simply put, we are not stupid, and we will see through whatever tactic you resort to.
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