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Day 625: colloquial



Perhaps surprisingly, given the association with women, the use of intensifiers is also associated with colloquial usage and nonstandard varieties.


Word of the day
Colloquial: informal and conversational, and more suitable for use in speech than in writing
Quote of the day
“Wittgenstein's language has the singularly rare quality of being both colloquial and painstakingly precise.”
― Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

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