Virtual Communication as the Main Format of Social Communication of Young People by Anna V. Irkova

“…The vocabulary of a modern teenager is reduced to simple colloquial expressions, often profanity (obscene words), jargon. …”

Talking Lamb or Deified Sage? by K.V. Kuzmin

“…Thus, it was phonetically similar to the word that was a possible source of the demotic word “lamb” (Hyb): the unattested form of Hry-Aba or Hry-Dba, the latter one was used during the Old Kingdom period and could have migrated back to the colloquial language during the rule of the XXVI dynasty when the archaism was spreading. …”
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Poetics of human interaction in K. D. Ushinsky’s essay “A Travel to Volhov” by Prozorov, Valery Vladimirovich

“…Ushinsky’s essay “A Travel to Volhov” (1852) is a remarkable collection of  numerous specimens of Russian colloquial culture, casting light on the poetics of sympathetic and kindly human interaction which we inherit regardless of all followed global historic transformations. …”
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The new aesthetics of the Spanish political life as a reflection of social changes by Elena Astakhova

“…The denial of parliamentary dress code means not desire to play by the rules of the «caste». The colloquial language typical for the media, television talk shows and glamorous magazines is usual now in the Parliament. …”
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Entropy and Wealth by Demetris Koutsoyiannis, G.-Fivos Sargentis

“…While entropy was introduced in the second half of the 19th century in the international vocabulary as a scientific term, in the 20th century it became common in colloquial use. Popular imagination has loaded “entropy” with almost every negative quality in the universe, in life and in society, with a dominant meaning of disorder and disorganization. …”
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Hollywood en los relatos pulp de Robert Leslie Bellem = Hollywood in Robert Leslie Bellem’s pulp stories. by José Ismael Gutiérrez

“…In these short stories, crime, intrigue, detective investigation, sexual content and satire are mixed with a colorful and colloquial linguistic style. All their actions take place in the context of the Hollywood film industry (of which Bellem had personal knowledge). …”
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A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays by Steffen Herbold, Annette Hautli-Janisz, Ute Heuer, Zlata Kikteva, Alexander Trautsch

“…So far, this belief is based on either colloquial evidence or benchmarks from the owners of the models—both lack scientific rigor. …”
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Development of web-mediated audio-visual listening book to boost the understanding of Implicatures in the TOEFL Short Dialogues by Arifuddin Arifuddin, I Made Sujana, Nawawi Nawawi

“…There are five primary causes of difficulty, ‘Speech Rate Delivery,’ ‘Voice,’ ‘Sentence Complexity,’ ‘Mishearing’ and ‘Colloquials.’ The product of the ‘Development Phase’ is a ‘Web-based audiovisual book for the TOEFL Short Dialogues.’ …”
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Linguo-sociocultural competence in the structure of the professional training of foreign language teachers by Chunxia Chen

“…The invariant and variable aims of education and the communicative needs of students-philologists – future teachers in the current branches of communication are formulated: professional, socio-cultural, business, socio-political and colloquial. The modern points of view on the structure of professional competence of future foreign language teachers, the place of linguistic and socio-cultural competence in its structure are analyzed. …”
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A Systems Engineering Approach to Carbon Accounting Using System Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) by Ward, John K.

“…Standards and methods of greenhouse gas emissions quantification, colloquially referred to as carbon accounting, remain unsettled in consideration. …”
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Negotiating identity and survival: the Chinese Indonesians’ journey in the last century by Wang, Li Wei Giovanni

“…This paper aims to examine the history and socio-cultural development of Indonesian Chinese, known colloquially as Chinese Indonesians, from 1965 to 1998 during the Suharto era. …”
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Please stop speaking Singlish! Pragmatism against identity construction. by Han, Zi Rui.

“…The main rejection in usage of the colloquial form involves the perceived uselessness of the language. …”
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Language attitudes towards Singapore mandarin and putonghua : a comparison between Singaporean chinese and Chinese nationals. by Ho, Yen Yee.

“…To do so, 64 participants were recruited to take part in a matched-guise and verbal guise test to evaluate their language attitudes towards two varieties of Singapore Mandarin, Singapore Standard Mandarin (SSM) and Singapore Colloquial Mandarin (SCM), as well as Putonghua (PTH), on a 7-point Likert scale with respect to status and solidarity traits. …”
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Emergency depopulation of chicken farms during an avian influenza outbreak (Design and development of CO2 delivery system) by Chang, Wei Jun

“…Birds, like humans are susceptible to a myriad of influenza viruses. Avian Influenza, colloquially known as bird flu has been one of the deadliest zoonotic infection known to man. …”
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The challenges and prospects for carbon pricing in Europe by Barnes, A

“…The paper provides an overview of the current status of carbon pricing in the EU 27 + UK, and coming policy developments such as the introduction of a UK Emissions Trading System (ETS), now that the UK has left the EU, reform of the EU ETS, and the EU’s proposal for a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, more colloquially known as a carbon border tax. The literature on carbon pricing is vast, and many of the issues, such as design of carbon pricing mechanisms, are complex. …”

Rapid vigilance and episodic memory decrements in COVID-19 survivors by Zhao, S, Shibata, K, Hellyer, PJ, Trender, W, Manohar, S, Hampshire, A, Husain, M

“…However, in the months following acute illness, many more suffer from fatigue, low motivation, disturbed mood, poor sleep and cognitive symptoms, colloquially referred to as 'brain fog'. But what about individuals who had asymptomatic to moderate COVID-19 and reported no concerns after recovering from COVID-19? …”

Linguistic features of Malaysian students’ online communicative language in an academic setting: the case of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia by Fuzirah Hashim, Ahmad Aminuddin Soopar, Bahiyah Abdul Hamid

“…The findings of the study indicate that the language used by the participants on Facebook consists of a mixture of code-switching, code-mixing, fillers, emoticons, spelling modifications, foreign language words and colloquial Malaysian English.…”
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Kelantan Peranakan Chinese language and marker of group identity by Pue, Giok Hun, Ong, Puay Liu, Loo, Hong Chuang

“…The Chinese as the largest minority ethnic group in the Peninsular, are often stereotypically depicted as relatively less fluent or knowledgeable in Malay language, at times not beyond the colloquial ‘bahasa pasar’. Such a scenario suggests that language-wise, Malaysian society remains divided along ethnic lines. …”
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The Discourse Marker of “âxe” (‘because’/‘but’) in Persian: An Intersubjectification Account by Azam Noora, Mohammad Amouzadeh

“…Such data mainly maintain the nature of the conversational or colloquial Persian which can form a useful corpus for discourse-pragmatic studies. …”
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Systems Analysis of complex glaciological processes and application to calving of Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica by M. L. Chester, B. Kulessa, A. J. Luckman, J. N. Bassis, P. Kuipers Munneke

“…In this initial demonstration, we forecast a detachment date of ~2019 ± 5 years for the large tabular iceberg colloquially known as the ‘Loose Tooth’, for which relative humidity surprisingly emerges as the best statistical predictor. …”
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