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Jeez!! Would you guys just eschew the obfuscation already?!
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yeahbut, one pn's type-3 is another's type-2.
Perhaps so. Nonetheless I'm sure you'd find much consistency among those similarly-inclined. Hence it might prove interesting if someone were to conduct a poll testing my assertion
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yeahbut, one pn's type-3 is another's type-2.
And someones type-2 may be anothers type-3. If type 3's are not in someones vernacular does the classification still apply?
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Sure it does, why not
Sorry, Maybe I don't understand the meaning of type-2, type-3. Is it to do with frequency? Some of the words used in everyday speech are not in common usage to some people on a regular basis. So to them the words could conceivably be classed as type-3. And vice versa, does a type 2 of yours or someone with a higher vocab become a type 3 for someone else. What is the distinction? In Cook Island Maori there are only words. No hard or easy words, just words.
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Perhaps a society rather than a coalition? RSPCW: Radical Society for the Protection and Collection of Words.
It's impossible to definitively typecast (most of them can be typed, obviously - that's how they showed up on the screen) words since frequency, familiarity and spellability are dependany on the user, hearer and speller. I might say in ward rounds that "knee flexion is a contra-indication" but to my patient I will say "don't bend your knee." Each is a perfectly usable, understandable phrase in it's own environment.
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I might say in ward rounds that "knee flexion is a contra-indication" but to my patient I will say "don't bend your knee." Each is a perfectly usable, understandable phrase in it's own environment.
Why "knee flexion is a contra-indication" rather than "is contra-indicated"? I'm asking from a position of the utmost ignorance, motivated by genuine curiosity.
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I might say in ward rounds that "knee flexion is a contra-indication"
Why "knee flexion is a contra-indication" rather than "is contra-indicated"? I'm asking from a position of the utmost ignorance, motivated by genuine curiosity.
Good question. I would think that "knee flexion is a contra-indication" would mean that if the patient bends a knee it would mean that there's something else that would be contra-indicated.
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Sure it does, why not
Sorry, Maybe I don't understand the meaning of type-2, type-3.
***2: them most folk understand but don't use much, eg, guffaw 3: Snooty words not used much in everyday conversation, eg, cachinnation
Is it to do with frequency?
***Only indirectly
... And vice versa, does a type 2 of yours or someone with a higher vocab become a type 3 for someone else. What is the distinction?...
***There isn't one. You're asking for a prescriptivist answer to a descriptivist question. But thank you for participating and again hearty welcome
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Olly, Dale has his own language, I think it's called Dalespeak. These distinctions are his and his alone. I'm not surprised you don't know them.
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