2011年3月26日 · Is person 1 saying the first sentence and person 2 is saying "you bet" , or this is a one complete sentence up to "you bet" by only one person? – user54352 Commented Oct 17, 2013 at 16:32

2011年6月16日 · If someone asks me "Who are you?", the context is what is important. If they are a snob, then it has a derogatory meaning. If they are simply asking your name, it has an entirely different meaning. If you answer with a self-congratulatory biography, then you sound arrogant in …

2012年12月19日 · Oxford English Dictionary says ["if you will"] is "sometimes used parenthetically to qualify a word or phrase: = ‘if you wish it to be so called’, ‘if you choose or prefer to call it so.’" Citations are given for the exact phrase back to the 16th century, with similar elliptical uses dating back to Old English.

2016年1月4日 · We understand meaning because we subconsciously pattern-match those sounds to existing chunks we've already stored away in our brains from countless prior conversations, each of which carries snippets of meaning both individually and …

2016年4月1日 · Excuse you is the subverted form of the idiom excuse me. It definitely implies that it was your, i.e., the non-speaker's, fault. If you do something rude and minor (like burp, or accidentally bump into someone, etc), you say "Excuse me" to apologize. Some people rudely say "excuse you" to someone they feel needs to apologize for being rude.

If you are using it in historical fiction, you'll need to research the etiquette rules in effect at the time, as they changed a bit over the period concerned. Incidentally, the converse form ye as the plural and formal singular form still exists in some dialects (it's found in parts of Ireland, for example), but generally only as a plural form ...

2011年10月7日 · You are correct, despite lack of Googling evidence. "Wait on" is common and well-understood in the south-eastern United States, specifically Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and maybe others in that region. The meaning and usage of …

2012年6月24日 · (have you considered/decided what to get me?) Much the same distinction applies to hear of/about. You might say you've heard of something meaning no more than that you're aware "something" exists. But if you've heard about something the implication is you've heard some important/current information about that thing.

2020年7月31日 · Sorry for replying almost 4 years after you've asked but I saw this question and just had to make sure you got an answer - so "air" in this case means aura or a certain quality.

lost the meaning of a real question but it used to have the meaning of a real one : when you meet someone it is polite to ask if that person is doing well. In France, when you meet someone for the first time, you can say "Enchanté!", which literally means "enchanted" or "delighted", but it's a set phrase too which has greatly lost its original ...