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It can compliment, or dismiss. It sometimes conveys strong emotions, or no emotion at all. And that's "nice" -- a tidy, sturdy word that's remarkably adaptable. Hundreds of years ago, it meant someone ...

We use certain phrases so often that we barely think about what they are actually communicating. Often, these common sayings don't mean what people think they do, which is why we encounter serious ...

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For example, one of the things about modern English that would most strike a time traveler from the past is the frequency of “I was like …” among younger speakers, as in “And I was like ‘You don’t ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dan Freedman is lawyer and IBWAA member who writes about baseball. Every baseball game – heck, every sporting event – has a “what ...