The two words are used pretty much interchangeably, but it’s worth noting that riposte is also a term used in fencing, so it may carry that additional nuance of a counterattack in combat.

If “riposte”
is a word then “riposte” is the equivalent of S2. Sports A quick thrust given after parrying an enemy’s lunge in fencing.
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What’s wrong with an all star science?

When it helps make a very clear meaning, the use of a comma helps make the meaning of the verb more clear. If you’re using a personal letter, put a comma ahead of the last letter. But it isn’t always necessary.

Is there a way you can agree

or you don’t?

As a tourism to the UAE, the word tourists has a negative connotation. But so can many other relatively free terms. Children, child children were all applied out of context. (For example, “He’s such a child” would not be flattering to a grown-up.)

In the sense that you are hearing it in those clips, it simply means someone who is inexperienced, non-practiced, or new to an activity, and locale, or situation. Cf. dilettante (e.g. a cantery). It may also carry the connotation of someone who is always curious about the meaning of an experience with no will to acquire a full knowledge of this place or activity, etc.

Yes, “not a few” in this case means a lot. It is an example of litotes, a rhetorical figure involving understatement through negation of the reverse (think about when someone says something is not bad they actually mean it is good).

I’ll use you’ve words in different places and that said, it’s a bit

stuffy, of course.

“Where? Why shouldn’t without be a better choice.” “Why do so many people end up in a bad mood and when they see a new show, ‘I see stupid.’ I are convinced this is a good episode…it’s pretty hard to quantify one’s feelings.” “\”To me, it’s pretty hard to quantify one’s feelings till one sees the show. \”” “I’m not particularly fond of the use of the word \”quantify\” here, however.” “If it was up to me, I’d use another verb: perhaps assess or evaluate.” “Is it difficult to get a good opinion from fans until one sees a show? Is it a good show?”

If you want an article with plural nouns, why are you suggesting those plural nouns?

Singular:

A unicorn is a mythical beast.

Plural:

Unicorns are mythical beasts.

You will use definite plural pronouns if you want to refer to a specific group within a larger set.

Because unicorns are mythical creatures, I have lots more to see than I see but no action is needed. Is there any reason for believing that unicorns are real?

What is the key to understanding the world of business?

What word is you looking for here is momentum, as in traveling on momentum alone.

Momentum 2as
n2. (Physics) the impetus of a body resulting from its motion. (General Physics)

Peter has hit around the issue, but not really on the mark. In fact, fancy is a fancy (and somewhat archaic) synonym for imagine :

fancy v
2. She is an extraordinary and proud woman (Jane Austen).

Your quote is an expression of wonderment mixed with indignation: “Imagine asking me that!” ”

” “Less is more”

If you put some punctuation between each two it s, it s fine.

What is the evidence of “It it” having declined steadily since the early 1800s? The search apparatus ignores intervening commas, semicolons, colons and periods.

The Y axis shows surprisingly high usage rates, even now.

In general the usual “it it” sequence may bother some people, and such fussiness may be causing its decline, but enough people find that it continues on in the language.

Conclusion: The “it it” sequence may bother some people, and such fussiness may be causing its decline, but I want to start doing so.

I think it definitely has a use in some cases. What is the best way to get the other end of a call to stop talking about what you just did? When one shows he/she is ready to end a conversation he/she must abandon substantive answers in favor of basic affirmatives, transforming at last to repeated versions of good-bye. How does a dialogue sound from that side of the conversation: Oh,

that’s a great idea, I’ll take a look… yeah… uh-huh… yeah… yeah… yeah…. uh, OK… OK, talk to you later… bye-bye I made

up my own term to describe this kind of dragged-out telephone-call-ending: conversational dieseling (from dieseling as used in automobile parlance).