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Данный пост затронет тему того , как же нам называть очень разговорчивых людей помимо overtalker, talkative, и других слов, которые были упомянуты ранее в статьях.

Вашему вниманию представляю 8 слов от Merriam-Webster.

Кстати говоря- это один из моих любимых словарей. На планшете у меня стоит приложение, которое каждый день показывает новое слово, и некоторые из них встречаются мне впервые, что весьма полезно для пополнения моего словарного запаса.

You Talk Too Much: 8 Words for the Wordy

You can't shut them up, but you can label them appropriately.

Оригинал статьи :

You Talk Too Much: 8 Words for the Wordy

Прочитав статью до конца вы узнаете:

  • новые слова
  • идиомы
  • части речи английского языка

Начать статью хотелось бы с повторения частей речи в английском языке, которые так часто забываются. Однако , хочу зацепить ваше внимание на том, что разбирая значения слова, знать прилагательное это или существительное , крайне важно, особенно в данном посте.

Читая статью , вы можете встретить неизвестные вам слова, и перейдя в словарь , вам предложат несколько вариантов значения , в зависимости от того, какая это часть речи. Соответсвенно, не понимая , какая часть речи представлена в вашем предложении, вы не сможете коррекно понять контекст прочитанного.

Parts of speech:

Noun (существительное)

Nouns are a person, place, thing, or idea.

Pronoun (местоимение)

Pronouns stand in for nouns in a sentence.

Verb ( глагол)

Verbs are action words that tell what happens in a sentence.

Adjective ( прилагательное )

Adjectives describe nouns and pronouns. They specify which one, how much, what kind, and more.

Adverb (наречие)

Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives, and even other adverbs.

Preposition (предлог)

Prepositions show spacial, temporal, and role relations between a noun or pronoun and the other words in a sentence.

Conjunction ( соединительные союзы)

Conjunctions join words, phrases, and clauses in a sentence.

Articles and Determiners (артикли и определители)

Articles and determiners function like adjectives by modifying nouns, but they are different than adjectives in that they are necessary for a sentence to have proper syntax. Articles and determiners specify and identify nouns, and there are indefinite and definite articles.

Interjection (междометия)

Interjections are expressions that can stand on their own or be contained within sentences.

Examples: ah, whoops, ouch, yabba dabba do!

Теперь, давайте, на примере первого предложения из статьи разберем его на части речи.

Does (verb) the (article) overtalker (noun) in (preposition) your (pronoun)
life (
noun) use (verb) more (adjective) words (noun) than (conjunction)
is (
verb) necessary (adjective) to (preposition) denote(verb) mere (adjective) sense(noun)?

Попрактиковать данную тему можно по ссылке:

https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/8504148

Предлагаю взглянуть на 8 слов по мнению Merriam-Webster, которыми мы можем назвать wordy людей, и заодно узнаем новые слова.

Pleonasm

Noun

  • the use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning , either as a fault of style or for emphasis.
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Glossary:

  • denote- to represent something
  • mere - used to emphasize that something is not large or important
  • accuse - to say that someone has done something morally wrong, illegal, or unkind
  • syllable - a single unit of speech, either a whole word or one of the parts into which a word can be separated, usually containing a vowel
  • ripe for smth- developed to a suitable condition for something to happen
  • lobbing - to hit or throw something

Examples:

Pleonasm is the rhetorical term for the use of more than one word where one word would be more than enough.

My work as writer is mere pleonasm.

Logorrhea

Noun

  • excessive and often incoherent talkativeness or wordiness
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Glossary:

  • Perhaps- used to show that something is possible or that you are not certain about something
  • noisome- very unpleasant and offensive
  • familiar - easy to recognize because of being seen, met, heard, etc. before
  • associate- to connect someone or something in your mind with someone or something else
  • pluck - to pull something, especially with a sudden movement, in order to remove it
Идиомы с глаголом pluck:

1. pluck something out of the air

to say something quickly, usually because a reply is expected, without having thought about it or made certain it is correct:

"Where did you get those figures from?" "Oh, I just plucked them out of the air."

2. pluck up your courage

to force yourself to be brave enough to do something, although you are frightened or worried about it:

He finally plucked up courage to ask her to marry him.

I'd love to do a parachute jump, but I can't pluck up the/enough courage.

  • raid- To raid is also to unfairly or secretly take something for your own use or benefit
  • medieval- related to the Middle Ages (= the period in European history from about AD 600 to AD 1500)

Example:

No comedy-sketch atmosphere would be complete, of course, without a dose of Joe Biden's logorrhea: "I think it requires a little bit of humility," he ruminated at one point, "to be able to know what the American people think, and I don't.

Verbose

Adjective

  • using or expressed in more words than are needed.
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Glossary:

  • among- in the middle of or surrounded by other things
  • prone- likely to show a particular characteristic, usually a negative one, or to be affected by something bad, such as damage or an illness
  • properly- correctly, or in a satisfactory way
  • likewise - in the same way
  • designation- an official title or name
  • accord- to give officially something desirable
  • slightly- a little

Examples:

If you know it, try using the website's numerical address rather than its verbose URL (Universal Resource Locator) name.

She frequently tweets out verbose diatribes split across dozens of messages; she once tweeted 34 times in 32 minutes.

Prolix

Adjective

  • (of speech or writing) using or containing too many words; tediously lengthy.
-5

Glossary:

  • crisp- hard enough to be broken easily
  • borrow- to take something from someone with the intention of giving it back after using it
  • during- from the beginning to the end of a particular period
  • ultimate- most important, highest, last, or final

Examples:

His haughty attitude provoked one of his soldiers, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, to write a prolix  account of the conquest 50 years after the event.

The earliest poems are prolix , or full of what Motion calls "word eruptions", but he finds the later poems strike a "balance between the murkiness and the clarity".

Motormouth

Noun

  • a person who talks quickly and incessantly.
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Glossary:

  • dawn- the period in the day when light from the sun begins to appear in the sky
  • especially- very much; more than usual or more than other people or things
  • evidence- anything that helps to prove that something is or is not true
  • decade- a period of ten years
  • respectively- (of two or more items) with each relating to something previously mentioned, in the same order as first mentioned

Example:

Of the regulars, Eddie Murphy nails most of the best lines in motormouth style, and one lightning exchange with the gingerbread man ("What you talkin' about, cracker?") is so subtly clever I was initially unsure if it was deliberate or not.

Garrulous

Adjective

  • excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters.
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Glossary:

  • literary- relating to literature (= written artistic works, especially those with a high and lasting artistic value)
  • heyday- the most successful or popular period of someone or something
  • appear- to start to be seen or to be present
  • coin- to invent a new word or expression, or to use one in a particular way for the first time
  • chatter- to talk continuously and usually for no serious purpose

Example:

He was garrulous and sociable and loved to be at the center of attention, but at the same time he was extraordinarily guarded about his private life.

Periphrasis

Noun

  • use of a longer phrasing in place of a possible shorter form of expression
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Glossary:

  • tend- to be likely to behave in a particular way or have a particular characteristic
  • contrast- to compare someone or something with another or others, or to show the differences between two or more things
  • instead- in place of someone or something else
  • related- connected
  • refer- to relate to a particular person or thing
  • Both- (referring to) two people or things together

Example:

Prince Bumpo, the heir to the throne, is a mooncalf who mistakes fairy tales for real life, speaks in Elizabethan periphrasis and murmurs to himself: “If only I were a white prince!”

Circumlocution

Noun

  • the use of many words where fewer would do, especially in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive.
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Glossary:

  • firmly- in a way that will not become loose
  • evasion- the act of avoiding something or someone
  • There's no way | around it | to find a way of dealing with or avoiding a problem- нет никакого варианта обойти это.

Examples:
He shuddered at his own craven circumlocution, using so meaningless a word to obscure so hideous a truth.

She was weary of repetitions, weary of circumlocutions, weary of everything.

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