Set Phrases News Today

Maybe you just want to compliment someone's cooking, or maybe you want to avoid a fight? Either way, brushing up on some Japanese before heading to your in-laws doesn't hurt.

Hotel staff speak an honorific form of Japanese that isn't always the first thing taught to budding language students. However, understanding it can give an insight into the culture.

It’s hard to break up with someone in any language, but the inclination toward “ghosting” may make one side feel even worse.

Me there he was on speakerphone. when the president calls, people put it on speaker because the president is calling. thats out out of the ordinary even though this administration thinks its out of the ordinary. i digross. maybe he couldnt get the name la david because he didnt know or they didnt talk about it for 12 days or maybe it was rushed. >> i think really if he saw that name on a piece of paper, somebody in his position should immediately thought this was was a tough one. >> how do you t...

Or they didnt talk about it for 12 days or maybe it was rushed. >> i think really if he saw that name on a piece of paper, somebody in his position should immediately thought this was was a tough one. >> how do you think he handled that one? >> what i heard is him stringing together a bunch of set phrases that one says. i didnt hear one bit of anything that somebody might think he actually meant in the way that you can imagine an obama would have done it, the way a nixon would have done it. all ...