"Absolutely" adds emphasis.
"Affirmative" just sounds American.
(To me.)
"Affirmative" just sounds American.
(To me.)
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I share your dislike of "doable", but I think "achievable" is closer than "possible".Originally posted by Pikaia View PostComment
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On adverts. "All your favourite hits!"
How do they know? Did they ask me?
Doesn't sound like they're playing Schnittke!
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I expect "they'd" be as surprised as I am that you were watching such adverts!!Originally posted by 3rd Viennese School View Post
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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"For sure" instead of saying "certainly" (or simply "Yes")Originally posted by clive heath View Post
... and have you noticed that TV correspondents out in the field invariably answer any statement by the host announcer in the studio on hand over with the words "that's right" (Well, I suppose it's better than replying "For sure"
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Or even, etymologically, feasible ('faisable').Originally posted by anotherbob View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Doncha just love "acclimate"? As in "we gotta get acclimated to this".Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostComment
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"Doable" suggests "could be done by someone/some agency". Does "feasible" have the same implication? I have the impression "feasible" may have come to mean something nearer "believable". I could be wrong.Originally posted by french frank View PostComment
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"There's lots of weather about today".
It's ALL weather.
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... not Gallifreyan?Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
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"Level Playing Field"
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"Moving the Goalposts".
Don't we get enough soccer rammed down our throats on TV without politicians joining in?
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Ummm, I think the use of playing fields and goalposts has spread a bit wider than just soccer these daysOriginally posted by Hornspieler View Post"Level Playing Field"
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"Moving the Goalposts".
Don't we get enough soccer rammed down our throats on TV without politicians joining in?
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I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!Comment
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not enough footy on TV on the BBC......hardly any in fact...Originally posted by Hornspieler View Post"Level Playing Field"
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"Moving the Goalposts".
Don't we get enough soccer rammed down our throats on TV without politicians joining in?
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not too much decent music on either, apart from the proms.
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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Soccer !
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Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View Post"There's lots of weather about today".
It's ALL weather.
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