In the 1960s, the linguist Michael Halliday pointed out that we tend to talk of "strong tea" instead of "powerful tea," even though the phrases make equal sense.
Events are proving that the king of Jordan was right to warn of a 'Shia crescent' across the Middle East - even though the phrase was a tad undiplomatic, writes Ian Black.
However, the prime minister has twice shied away from pledging that the UK should remain a "tier one" military power on par with the US, Russia, China and France, even though the phrase is understood to feature in the review.
Even though the phrase was first used back in March, it has been Obama's recent use of it in a speech that launched it to viral status.
I don't know enough about the players' upbringings to nominate a candidate, even though the phrase "mama's boy" pops into my head whenever I see Kyle Schwarber.
"Changing can do a little good," Bridges-as-Lebowski says, before throwing in an inexplicable "the Dude abides," even though the phrase has no logical place in their conversation.
6 This nomenclature is widely used, even though the phrases convey little about their technical meaning and practical implications, which can be subtle.
"Slaveowners would punish disruptive slaves by selling them to plantations in the Deep South where conditions were much harder," Ramsey says. . Ramsey said that even though the other phrases she mentioned in the video have little offense today, the g-word, which she censors in the video, is actually a racial slur used to refer to Romani people, originally from India.
Even though the physicians phrased their answers differently, the manifest content was similar to the answers provided by the general population.
Even though the ambiguous phrases were presented in a neutral context, subjects have preferences for one syntactic interpretation over another, which affect the ease with which ambiguities can be resolved (Rayner and Duffy, 1986).
