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  2. Academese - Wikipedia

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    In the context of medical sciences, a similar term, medicalese, exists; likewise, legal science jargon is called legalese. [1]: 1 [6] [7] [8] In the context of the English language, the term Engfish has also been used ("sounds like English but stinks like a fish").

  3. Filipino styles and honorifics - Wikipedia

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    The president and vice-president may also be informally addressed as "Mister/Madam President or Vice-President" in English and is sometimes informally referred to as Ang Mahál na Pangulo or Ang Mahál na Pangalawang Pangulo. [c] Presently, noble titles are rarely used outside of the national honors system and as courtesy titles for Moro nobility.

  4. Honorific - Wikipedia

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    The most common honorifics in modern English are usually placed immediately before a person's name. Honorifics used (both as style and as form of address) include, in the case of a man, "Mr." (irrespective of marital status), and, in the case of a woman, previously either of two depending on marital status: "Miss" if unmarried and "Mrs." if married, widowed, or divorced; more recently, a third ...

  5. Sentence function - Wikipedia

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    An exclamative is a sentence type in English that typically expresses a feeling or emotion, but does not use one of the other structures. It often has the form as in the examples below of [WH + Complement + Subject + Verb], but can be minor sentences (i.e. without a verb) such as [WH + Complement] How wonderful!.

  6. Word addressing - Wikipedia

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    A pair of a word address and an offset within the word is called a wide address (also known as a fat address or fat pointer). (This should not be confused with other uses of wide addresses for storing other kinds of supplemental data, such as the bounds of an array.) The stored offset may be either a bit offset or a byte offset.

  7. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    Complementary antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite but whose meanings do not lie on a continuous spectrum (push, pull). Relational antonyms are word pairs where opposite makes sense only in the context of the relationship between the two meanings (teacher, pupil). These more restricted meanings may not apply in all scholarly ...

  8. Vocative case - Wikipedia

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    For word roots that end with a consonant, the vocative case suffix is -o, and for the words that end with a vowel, it is -v like in Old Georgian, but for some words, it is considered archaic. For example, kats-is the root for the word "man". If one addresses someone with the word, it becomes katso. Adjectives are also declined in the vocative case.

  9. Style (form of address) - Wikipedia

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    Address terms are linguistic expressions used by a speaker to start conversation or call someone. George Yule defines address form is a word or phrase that is used for a person to whom speaker wants to talk. [1] Address forms or address terms are social oriented and expose the social relationship of interlocutors.