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  2. Phone etiquette 101: When it’s rude to be on speaker — and ...

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    Between calling and video chatting and texting and DM’ing, communication these days has never been more convenient. We can take or make a call anywhere — at the gym, on the train, in the ...

  3. Colloquialism - Wikipedia

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    Jargon is terminology that is explicitly defined in relationship to a specific activity, profession, or group. The term refers to the language used by people who work in a particular area or who have a common interest. Similar to slang, it is shorthand used to express ideas, people, and things that are frequently discussed between members of a ...

  4. Conversation - Wikipedia

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    Derber argued that the social support system in America is relatively weak, which leads people to compete for attention. In social situations, he believes that people tend to steer the conversation away from others and toward themselves. "Conversational narcissism is the key manifestation of the dominant attention-getting psychology in America ...

  5. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    It is possible that some of the meanings marked non-standard may pass into Standard English in the future, but at this time all of the following non-standard phrases are likely to be marked as incorrect by English teachers or changed by editors if used in a work submitted for publication, where adherence to the conventions of Standard English ...

  6. High rising terminal - Wikipedia

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    Research published in 1986, regarding vernacular speech in Sydney, suggested that high rising terminal was used more than twice as often by young people than older people, and was more common among women than men. [4] In other words, HRT was more common among women born between 1950 and 1970, than among men born before 1950.

  7. Calling convention - Wikipedia

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    The calling convention of a given program's language may differ from the calling convention of the underlying platform, OS, or of some library being linked to. For example, on 32-bit Windows, operating system calls have the stdcall calling convention, whereas many C programs that run there use the cdecl calling convention. To accommodate these ...

  8. Here’s who’s speaking at the Democratic National Convention

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    The convention, held in Chicago, will feature a host of speakers for the four-day event, ranging from current White House, congressional… Here’s who’s speaking at the Democratic National ...

  9. List of dialects of English - Wikipedia

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    Within a given English-speaking country, there is a form of the language considered to be Standard English: the Standard Englishes of different countries differ and can themselves be considered dialects. Standard English is often associated with the more educated layers of society as well as more formal registers.