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"TBA" (meaning "to be announced") is also used to describe a specific type of simple mortgage investment, the forward mortgage-backed security. This is used to indicate that the investor is acquiring some portion of a pending pool of as-yet unspecified mortgages, which will be specified at a given delivery date. [ 8 ]
Ad nauseam is a Latin term for an argument or other discussion that has continued to the figurative point of nausea. [1] [2] For example, "this has been discussed ad nauseam" indicates that the topic has been discussed extensively and those involved have grown sick of it.
Discourse is a generalization of the notion of a conversation to any form of communication. [1] Discourse is a major topic in social theory, with work spanning fields such as sociology, anthropology, continental philosophy, and discourse analysis.
13th-century illustration of a Jew and a Christian debating in a work by the Jewish convert Petrus Alphonsi. Debate is a process that involves formal discourse, discussion, and oral addresses on a particular topic or collection of topics, often with a moderator and an audience.
The idiom can imply a value judgment that the issue ought to be discussed openly, or it can simply be an acknowledgment that the issue is there and not going to go away by itself. The term is often used to describe an issue that involves a social taboo or which generates disagreement, such as race, religion, politics, homosexuality, mental ...
LSFW, meaning Less Safe For Work. Used in corporate emails to indicate that the content may be sexually explicit or profane, helping the recipient to avoid potentially objectionable material. MIA, meaning Missing In Action. Used when original email has lost in work process. NIM, meaning No Internal Message. Used when the entire content of the ...
Poker’s origins can be traced across hundreds of years, and nowadays it has become perhaps the most popular card game in the world. It is a game that involves luck, skill, experience and even a ...
"Spending the summer traveling around India is a great idea, but it does beg the question of how we can afford it." [38] Sometimes it is further confused with "dodging the question", an attempt to avoid it, or perhaps more often begging the question is simply used to mean leaving the question unanswered. [9]