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- Pronunciation of the word negotiate with an s
I've heard native speakers use both nə'ɡosiyet , with s , and nə'ɡoʃiyet , with ʃ It's a question of how far the palatalization of the original *t goes, and that turns out to be an individual (or speech group) decision, which means it's variable, and may be subject to sociolinguistic factors, like education, social class, age, gender, location, etc
- is it a phrase - Is negotiation room a correct expression? - English . . .
A search for the phrase "some room for negotiation" in Google Books returns about 50 unique matches, while a search for the phrase "some negotiating room" returns about 45 unique matches; a search for the phrase "some room to negotiate" yields about 30 unique matches, as does a search for the phrase "some room for negotiating"; and a search for the phrase "some negotiation room" returns 20
- orthography - Should I use negotiate or negociate? - English Language . . .
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged lists "negociate" as an "archaic variant of negotiate", which means that it's not in common use anymore Given that, I would use "negotiate " Given that, I would use "negotiate "
- expressions - meaning of negotiate your way out of - English Language . . .
In this article : " It’s baffling that Trump isn’t taking baseline cybersecurity measures at a time when he is trying to negotiate his way out of a trade war with China, a country that is known for using cyber tactics to gain the upper hand in business negotiations,”
- Whats a phrase for a compromise in which both sides are unhappy?
@DawoodibnKareem A “split-the-baby negotiation” today is a real compromise Even in the original story, telling both women that they could get half of the baby was a putative compromise, just one so horrific that the arbitrator did not expect it to actually happen, and only proposed it to get the parties to back down from their intractable positions
- If you are talking on behalf of you and someone else, what is the . . .
I looked at a bunch of style guides to see what they have to say on this subject The vast majority of them dedicate at least a paragraph to the distinction (or nondistinction) between "in behalf of" and "on behalf of"—but not one addresses the question of how to handle "on behalf of" when used by a speaker to refer to another person and to him- or herself
- What do you call the process of combining two words to create a new one . . .
Two very well established examples I can think of are: Guesstimate (i e Guess + Estimate) Chillax (i e Chill + Relax) I guess I am meaning the process where two words are artificially combined in
- The purpose of versus the purpose for — which one is proper?
This is an interesting topic To add to bikeboy389's response: the purpose of something is the reason it exists
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