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Salutation in letter Oral address King: HM The King (SM El Rey) Your Majesty (Majestad) Your Majesty, and thereafter as Sir (Señor) Queen: HM The Queen (SM La Reina) Your Majesty (Majestad) Your Majesty, and thereafter as Ma'am (Señora) Prince of Asturias: HRH The Prince of Asturias (SAR El Príncipe de Asturias) Your Royal Highness (Alteza Real)
There's a sound sample of the allophone in Fonetikens grunder (written in 2004, btw) on the publishers webpage. It's a European Spanish rendition of el carro de Rodriguez, which is transcribed as [el 'kar:o ðe roðɾiɣeθ]: wav-file. It is used to illustrate the differences in /r/-realizations foremost, but also to show how the voiced ...
A backchannel response can be verbal, non-verbal, or both. Backchannel responses are often phatic expressions, primarily serving a social or meta-conversational purpose, such as signifying the listener's attention, understanding, sympathy, or agreement, rather than conveying significant information. Examples of backchanneling in English include ...
A letter of credence (lettres de créance) is the instrument by which a head of state appoints ("accredits") ambassadors to foreign countries. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Also known as credentials , the letter closes with a phrase "asking that credit may be given to all that the ambassador may say in the name of his sovereign or government."
A disfluence or nonfluence is a non-pathological hesitance when speaking, the use of fillers (“like” or “uh”), or the repetition of a word or phrase. This needs to be distinguished from a fluency disorder like stuttering with an interruption of fluency of speech, accompanied by "excessive tension, speaking avoidance, struggle behaviors, and secondary mannerism".
Business letters can have many types of content, for example to request direct information or action from another party, to order supplies from a supplier, to point out a mistake by the letter's recipient, to reply directly to a request, to apologize for a wrong, or to convey goodwill. A business letter is sometimes useful because it produces a ...
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Upside-down marks, simple in the era of hand typesetting, were originally recommended by the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy), in the second edition of the Ortografía de la lengua castellana (Orthography of the Castilian language) in 1754 [3] recommending it as the symbol indicating the beginning of a question in written Spanish—e.g. "¿Cuántos años tienes?"