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Meanings of colloquial speech in English
Russian
разговорный язык Portuguese
linguagem coloquial Spanish
estilo coloquial Catalan
llengua col·loquial Style of the language used for casual communication.
Synonyms
Examples for "colloquialism"
Examples for "colloquialism"
1
He had personal reasons to know the fundamental accuracy of the colloquialism.
2
There, Mr. Editor, you have a pleasing comminglement of romance and colloquialism.
3
But in everyday speech a certain amount of colloquialism is inevitable.
4
The richness of colloquialism moved the vicar of Mount Dunstan to deep enjoyment.
5
The colloquialism escaped Homosoto, but he got the gist of it.
1
An abbreviation of Betwixt, used in poetry, or in colloquial language.
2
That was the original language of the Bible, a colloquial language.
3
Its satirical tone, contemporary colloquial language and run-on style are both amusing and annoying.
4
It is not just a colloquial language, Buthelezi said.
5
Or, as she also puts it using more colloquial language, "the whole caboodle comes back".
1
What would be a casual speech on the tongue of another becomes significant, when he has given one of his original twists to it.
2
Like other self-made men who had come to New York-like Selma herself-hehad shrunk from and deplored at first the lighter tone of casual speech.
1
Bunyan originated this colloquial style, and Defoe and Richardson were his imitators.
2
Mr. Sprudell had a jaunty, colloquial style when he stooped to prose.
3
Perrin was nettled, for he prided himself on his colloquial style.
4
All other translations follow colloquial style for quick comprehension.
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Alan laughed at the man's inflated English, and answered in a more nervous and colloquial style:
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I shuddered as the man grew colloquial-andwith familiar speech of another day.
2
Very careful, prudent, precise persons are seldom entertaining in familiar speech.
3
Everything has its due season, familiar speech and formal speech.
4
Mr. Calton, construing her silence and averted head into some resentment of his familiar speech, continued hurriedly:-
5
Peyton ignored the now familiar speech.
1
I couldn't help myself and I kept my voice to a low register because Hayden was in the vicinity.
2
He seeks the fundamental tones of the Maket pipes in the first or low register, an octave below the normal pitch.
3
His face always grave, yet strong and comforting, his voice unwavering, yet muted to a low register, he commanded the mourning ritual.
4
Her range is good, with a lovely full low register, a firm middle register and no appreciable trace of [strain in the top.
5
"You mustn't go." Ominously, Ellen's voice dipped to the low register.
1
They cross the line going from informal language to a physics lesson.
2
She loved being their informal language teacher.
3
People write back in the first person, using the informal language of the web, and Trump retweets messages from his followers.
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Of course, with short e-mail messages that use informal language, as opposed to long documents, the need for editing or correction is minimal.
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Since that December, the informal language of the SMS and other digital platforms has become a social concern, especially for its effect on kids.
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The doctor had been "at him," so to speak, searching the depths of him with a probing acuteness the casual language had disguised.
Usage of colloquial speech in English
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His colloquial speech accorded badly with his formal tone.
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But the Colonel's colloquial speech was apt to be fragmentary incoherencies of his larger oratorical utterances.
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The phraseology is less literary, and more taken from the colloquial speech and the usage of everyday life.
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He did not use them to show off, but because they seemed to him more adequate than colloquial speech.
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The wheel which he had jogged so agreeably had come full round, and, in colloquial speech, had biffed him in the eye.
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Mr. Howells, a master of English, may be taken as a faithful reporter of the colloquial speech of Boston and New York.
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Whatever may be said against employing contractions in dignified discourse, their use in colloquial speech is too firmly established to justify our censure.
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Do you notice elements that give the text a flavor of oral storytelling, such as colloquial speech or occasional use of second person or questions?
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Translations for colloquial speech
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