Here’s a mini deep-dive into why we say “nice and warm” instead of just “warm.”
Otherwords is a linguistics show on PBS Storied hosted by Erica Brozovsky.
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Here’s a mini deep-dive into why we say “nice and warm” instead of just “warm.”
Otherwords is a linguistics show on PBS Storied hosted by Erica Brozovsky.
source
Ahh nice AND easy
Come HERE and take it!
loud & clear
Safe and sound?
Hendiadys – may cause dizziness and confusion, anxiety and shortness of breath, nausea and upset stomach. Talk to your doctor before taking Hendiadys.
I could make a furious sound, which would be loud, but have no fury. In my mind the same happens with the others but are much more vague. Like we can have the law but not follow it or enforce it, and we can have order but not because of a law. I do not understand what grammar form is come take it. I'm not saying it is wrong, I'm saying I don't know what it is. To me "come to take it" is a more natural form. Yet, if "take" implies to come, then saying "take it" should be enough.
As a Greek speaker, I find “hendiadys” particularly irritating. It’s obscure, ugly, and with a tortuous etymology that makes knowing Greek no help at all.
I mean, "Take." could convey the meaning if both communicator and communicatee knew the context
It's come and GET it though
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Dr. B is good, but she's no V. Williamson! (Legendary high school English teacher.)
Isn’t the phrase “come and get it” ??
It's Hendiadys, and it's art.
Nice and easy
I see you
Hendiadys, definition: A word that you and nobody you know or will ever know will ever use.
In this economy, my hendiatris are now all hendiadys. They done gone came & took.
When you see the "moron label" crowd parroting their slogan, it is always fun to remind them that when the Spartans challenged the Persians to "come and take" their weapons…the Persians said "ok" and proceeded to go and do just that.
Come and take it is two ideas tho. It's different than come take it. It's FA and FO
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"try and do it" instead of "try doing it"
very cute – "nice and easy' – you do get extra points. minus one
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
Is there a word for the use of “and” in place of another word, when the switch seems wrong? For example, “try and do something” instead of the more correct “try to do something.”
Veni, vidi, vici is not a Latin hendiadys. For that it would have to have been veni et vidi et vici.
Now pbs is criticizing classic American slogans!
This explains so many modern book titles.
is "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" really a good example? I thought that's just a list of three.
Can you dig it galore and smithereens come from the Irish language
No, man, saying "and" is standard, and omitting it is a rhetorical technique.
Is this why AI texts tend to have couplets and triplets in every paragraph?
I think I once exhibited the signs and symptoms of hendiadys. Caused me a lot of pain and suffering. No wait, that was haemorrhoids. Never mind.
Sound and fury is not the same thing as furious sound.
I wonder if there is a term for the opposite of this like the British slang, "you what, mate?"
Hello! I would be very curious on hearing your thoughts about alveolar trills in American English, if I’m not mistaken I believe you pronounced “could’ve” using an alveolar trill on the d, this seems like a fairly recent thing to me and I’ve caught myself and some friends doing at times but I have actually found a huge amount of information on it yet,
Great video though!
“Try and do something” pisses me off to no end for no good reason