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Old October 09, 2010, 02:05 AM
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Come off it. Hebrew poetry was using this kind of repetition 3000 years ago.
Maybe, but that is poetry, and I thought we were talking of journalism. I was merely stating my suspicion that journalists are insensitve to language and don't realise what they are saying some of the time. Only a few days ago I heard on TV that there was a hightened terrorist threat, and that 'The UK, France and Germany had been singled out'.
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Old October 09, 2010, 09:15 AM
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Mmm... Thank you, but don't you mean, Modern as in from the 1600 on, right? You mean journalists of this 21st century, right?

Because Shakespeare uses things like,
"Eaten out of house and home"
"Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble"

"He contributed more phrases and sayings to the English language than any other individual - and most of them are still in daily use.

And while "house and home" may be pretty close in meaning, they still have a slight difference... (I take one thing is play-writing and poetry... and another journalism...)

Can someone lose his liberty by still keep his freedom? Or viceversa?
Or is this just a pointless argument? (Una discusión bizantina: ¿cuántos ángeles caben en la cabeza de una aguja?)

I take there are differences of usage,
As in "Freedom of speech" or other "freedoms". You would say these are "liberties" but you would not say "liberty of speech"? (Well, now that I check it, there are 1,200,000 for "liberty of speech", legal definition et al...)
Mmmh...
Hmmm House and home for me would mean casa y hogar

phrases and saying = frases y dichos

As to liberty and freedom, I guess liberty can also be taken as libertinaje.

I guess it would depend of context.

But then again, I might be wrong.
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Old October 09, 2010, 07:32 PM
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Well, thank you, Chileno for your input. Always appreciated!
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