We are exposed to new words and expressions everyday. The creation of them may be influenced by words taken from other languages, publicity, technological reasons or social meanings to name a few. Most of the time people use them to get a social approval (friend,peers,colleagues,etc.) or just looking for simplicity and convenience to say more things in less time. That is the case of a very popular informal language used in internet known as "chatspeak or netspeak" which gives us the possibility to chat online,send messages or even write long emails faster. If you are not familiar with chatspeak, here are some known terms:
AFK:away from the keyboard ATM: at the moment AFAIK: as far as I know ASAP: as soon as possible BRB:be right back BTA:but then again... BTW: by the way... HTH: hope that helps or happy to help JIC: just in case LOL:laughing out loud LTNS: long time no see NM: never mind OMG: oh my god TC:Take care THX:Thanks! TYT:take your time WTV: watching tv
There are lots of them! For more information, visit:
Comparatives and superlatives are one of the “so called” easiest grammatical structures to learn though many upper-intermediate and advanced learners still have problems with them.
These “grammatical structures” are defined in the web as follows:
In grammar, the superlative of an adjective or adverb is the greatest form of adjective or adverb which indicates that something has some feature to a greater degree than anything it is being compared to in a given context.
In grammar, the comparative is the form of an adjective or adverb which denotes the degree or grade by which a person, thing, or other entity has a property or quality greater or less in extent than that of another, and is used in this context with a subordinating conjunction, such as than, as...as, etc.
The first thing you need to know is that there are 6 categories of adjectives, so 6 categories of comparatives and 6 of superlatives. (Relax! Don’t be scared, they are much easier than what you may think.) And one extra category which is entirely dedicated to the words: Good, bad & far. As you can’t certainly say more good or badder. Whether you are comparing or not, you must take in consideration if it is a one syllable, one syllable with “e” ending and so on. And one last thing is that in comparatives, there to forms of comparing things, which are by saying which one is better, stronger, happier than, etc. and on the other hand you can say that something is/isn’t as good, strong, happy as, etc.
Alright folks, as you have probably realized in this new blog, idioms are expressions used very frequently in oral language. But there are some others that are more used in written language, although they are popular in spoken language. Those are called Acronyms and Initialisms.
Acronyms and Initialisms are abbreviations of several words in such a way that the abbreviation itself forms a pronounceable word. The word may already exist or it can be a new word.
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There are many idioms about food that can be quite helpful to describe people or give an opinion about someone you know very well. For instance, you can name yourself "a couch potato" if you spend a lot of time sitting and watching TV. If you have a friend who can be defined as a very honest and good person you can call him or her "the salt of the earth." "keen as mustard" could be assigned to a very enthusiastic person or the oppossite "as cool as a cucumber" to someone very calmed and relaxed. In the same way, someone that often drops things can be nicknamed as "a butterfingers." Other examples can be to use "to cut the mustard" to emphasize that somebody is very good at something and call two people "you are like chalk and cheese" to state that they are completely different.
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