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 #2 (permalink) Wed Feb 22, 2006 13:18 pm Collocation |
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Dear Evran,
Collocation is a combination (group) of words that are typically or frequently used together.
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| #3 (permalink) Wed Feb 22, 2006 13:58 pm Meaning of collocation |
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Words with high collocation are frequently found together (sweet as honey, military police, bread and butter), while words with low collocation are seldom found next to each other (sweet as mud, culinary police, bread and sushi).
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| #4 (permalink) Wed Feb 22, 2006 14:03 pm Sweet as? |
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Hi,
What does this mean?
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| #5 (permalink) Wed Feb 22, 2006 14:28 pm Mud pie |
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Maybe our guest meant 'sweet as mud pie' :) (I've never tried this American cake, but judging from the tempting pictures I've seen of it, it must be yummy!) |
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| #6 (permalink) Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:50 am Meaning of collocation |
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It means nothing as far as I know-- the words are an example of very low collocation. Nevertheless, googling the phrase produces 11 hits.
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| #7 (permalink) Fri Feb 24, 2006 15:20 pm Meaning of collocation |
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Maybe the person is confounding three different collocations:
mud pie
sweet as pie
clear as mud |
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| #8 (permalink) Fri Feb 24, 2006 23:25 pm Meaning of collocation |
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I wasn't confounding anything-- I made it up. Yours collocate much higher than mine, of course.
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