| But having said all of that, I would like to speak at least a few words in defense of colloquialism. |
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| The inspiration of the 'Singapore Aunties' project comes from our eccentric and eclectic south-eastern colloquialism. |
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| Orhan Veli's colloquialism is radical and transcends the middle class from which he came. |
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| With much success he walks a fine line between scholarly jargon and patronizing colloquialism. |
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| The academic protocols are observed, but her instincts are folksier, so her writing has a breathless, often brainless colloquialism. |
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| Lemoine's stylized language dances all around Biblical convention, but throws in contemporary colloquialism wherever humour and rhythm demand. |
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| There were pertinent summaries of Kiwi poetry's nationalism and colloquialism. |
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| Her voice is a curious union of American pacing and British colloquialism, with just enough of an accent to not seem forced, and her grammar is unexpectedly superb. |
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| But in using a colloquialism I certainly didn't mean any offence to anyone with a mental illness. |
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| Pajero is a colloquialism widely used in South America, particularly Argentina, meaning masturbator. |
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| The members noted that the expression 'un Québécois pure laine' is a colloquialism that is well-known in Quebec. |
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| The teacher's use of emotion, colloquialism, and the natural ungrammaticalness of spontaneous speech, all combine to make ASR accuracy very low on this type of speech. |
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| It is time that divine help stepped in and coached Hollywood on the follies of shoddy impersonation, and even worse, blatant colloquialism of all verbal history. |
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| They use prose, rhyme, slang, metaphor, colloquialism and patois. |
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| We take a very strong stand in trying to promote dollars going into mental illness, but it's a colloquialism. |
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| Montezuma's Revenge is a colloquialism for traveler's diarrhea in visitors to Mexico. |
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| There, Mr. Editor, you have a pleasing comminglement of romance and colloquialism. |
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| The point I was making here was to use a colloquialism to say that Tony Abbott is rejecting and refusing to see the biggest challenge facing us and in so doing it's a massive opportunity cost to the country. |
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