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This is because of the existence of what I call the back channel, over which the person who has the turn receives short messages such as 'yes' and 'uh-huh' without relinquishing the turn." [ 1 ] Backchannel responses are a part of basic human interaction because to have a productive or meaningful person-person interaction humans must cooperate ...
Back slang is not restricted to words spoken phonemically backwards. English frequently makes use of diphthongs, which is an issue for back slang since diphthongs cannot be reversed. The resulting fix slightly alters the traditional back slang. An example is trousers and its diphthong, ou, which is replaced with wo in the back slang version ...
Backchannel is the use of networked computers to maintain a real-time online conversation alongside the primary group activity or live spoken remarks. The term was coined from the linguistics term to describe listeners' behaviours during verbal communication.
"Back-slang" formation from "police" spelled backwards, "ecilop" = "slop". Common before World War II in the UK. Rare today. Smokey State police or troopers. Derived from over-the-road trucker CB radio calls, as popularized by the 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit. Though the portrayal of police in that movie was generally negative, the term ...
She knows just how to turn his back talk into an entire conversation! In fact, this seems to be a talent that Shih-Tzu owners seem to develop after spending enough time with their precocious pups.
A synonym always has the same or similar meaning as another word. Dieter Simon 01:42, 8 March 2009 (UTC) I'm not saying "pupil" (student) and "pupil" (part of the eye) are synonyms. I'm saying the word "pupil" is sometimes a synonym of the word "student." The word "automobile" is always a synonym of the word "car."
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Talking past each other" is an English phrase describing the situation where two or more people talk about different subjects, while believing that they are talking about the same thing. [ 1 ] David Horton writes that when characters in fiction talk past each other, the effect is to expose "an unbridgeable gulf between their respective ...