ЦИТАТЫ СО СЛОВОМ «GAFFE»
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gaffe.
Spend hundreds of millions; talk endlessly about issues; present 12-point plans for education, the economy, and the environment. But in the end, the election of our next president can turn on a gaffe.
A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «GAFFE»
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Mind the
Gaffe!: A Troubleshooter's Guide to English Style ...
A linguist with attitude, R. L. Trask was a steadfast soldier in the never-ending War of Words, fighting the good fight for standard written English.
This is not an analogy, or a product of the imagination, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari would write in A Thousand Plateaus, but a composition of speeds and affects on the plane of consistency: a plan(e), a program, or rather a diagram, a ...
Whitney Anne Trettien,
2013
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of ...
The parties themselves have given a practical construction to the arrangement,
which accords with these views, for long after the maturity of these acceptances (
they being unpaid and the acceptors insolvent), Gaffe & Cutter paid the
defendant ...
New York (State). Court of Appeals,
1867
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The Everyday Language of White Racism
The Trent Lott firestorm illustrates the usefulness of the “gaffe” label for the project
of White racism. Once the label is applied, the intricate personalist discourse of
motives illustrated here takes over as a form of common sense, and makes ...
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Garner's Modern American Usage
Gallic, though formerly denoting a Frenchman, is not used as a noun in modern
English. gaffe; gaff, n. Gaffe = (1) a blunder in etiquette; faux pas; or (2) a blatant
error. Gaff (a rarer word) = (1) a long pole with a metal hook used in fishing; (2) a
...
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Relativism and the Social Sciences
The. gaffe. -avoiding. animal. or. A. Bundle. of. Hypotheses. There are a number
of notions of rational behaviour. The most important, and also most readily
intelligible, is Zweckrationalitdt. Conduct is rational if it is optimally effective in
attaining ...
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Mind the Gaffe: The Penguin Guide to Common Errors in English
Trask's wonderfully readable and authoritative book adjudicates on hundreds of contentious issues from politically correct language to whether to write 'napkin' or 'serviette'.
SYNONYM MATCHING: On the left are words from this unit. Draw a line to the
word on the right with the closest meaning. 1) choppy 2) ghastly 3) gaffe 4)
madcap 5) say a) error b) wacky c) horrifying d) voice e) uneven SENTENCE
BUILDING: ...
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Eurekas and Euphorias: The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes
116. The. maestro's. gaffe. Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) was hailed as a
mathematical and scientific genius from the beginning of his student years in
Vienna. He was one of the small band of theoretical physicists who wrought a
revolution ...
gaffe. Consider a 1974 game that our very own JD played with the St. Louis
Blues. “One of the opposing forwards, a player named Jerry Korab, wristed the
puck down the ice from his own defensive zone, and I went over to stop it,” the
fearless ...
John Davidson, John Steinbreder,
2011
НОВОСТИ, В КОТОРЫХ ВСТРЕЧАЕТСЯ ТЕРМИН «GAFFE»
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gaffe в контексте приведенных ниже новостных статей.
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