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  2. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch - Wikipedia

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    Weasel words are words and phrases aimed at creating an impression that something specific and meaningful has been said, when in fact only a vague or ambiguous claim has been communicated. A common form of weasel wording is through vague attribution, where a statement is dressed with authority, yet has no substantial basis. Phrases such as ...

  3. Grammar of late Quenya - Wikipedia

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    The historical plural ending for adjectives is -i. However, in late Quenya, adjectives ending in - a instead have this - a replaced by - ë . Moreover, the adjective laurëa ("golden") there has the plural form laurië (in laurië lantar lassi , literary "golden fall (the) leaves", which in singular would have been *'laurëa lanta lassë ...

  4. Hedge (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Fuzzy language refers to the strategic manipulation of hedges so as to deliberately introduce ambiguity into a statement. Hedges can also be used to express sarcasm as a way of making sentences more vague in written form. Sapphire works really hard. In this sentence, the word really can make the sentence fuzzy depending on the tone of the ...

  5. List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names

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    Adjectives ending -ish can be used as collective demonyms (e.g. the English, the Cornish). So can those ending in -ch / -tch (e.g. the French, the Dutch) provided they are pronounced with a 'ch' sound (e.g., the adjective Czech does not qualify). Where an adjective is a link, the link is to the language or dialect of the same name.

  6. Interlingua grammar - Wikipedia

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    On is a nominative pronoun used when the identity of the subject is vague. The English translation is often 'one', 'you', or 'they'. It is sometimes equivalent to an English passive voice construction. The oblique form is uno. On non vide tal cosas actualmente. 'One doesn't see such things these days.' On sape nunquam lo que evenira.

  7. 25 Foods You Should Never, Ever Freeze (and Why) - AOL

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    Keep the following list in mind to avoid ending up disappointed or with a lot of waste. Here are 25 foods you should avoid freezing. Oleksandr Todorov/istockphoto. 1. Mayonnaise.

  8. Specificity (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In English, the concept of specificity is often denoted by the use of particular adjectives, such as certain. Indefinite noun phrases without these adjectives, like a chair, one coat, or three men, can typically be understood as either specific or non-specific, leaving them unmarked for specificity. However, in some languages, noun phrases in ...

  9. Trump gives allies Devin Nunes, Richard Grenell key roles

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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday named his social media platform CEO Devin Nunes to lead an intelligence advisory panel and said his former intelligence chief ...