- Pronunciation of the word negotiate with an s
I've heard native speakers use both nə'ɡosiyet , with s , and nə'ɡoʃiyet , with ʃ It's a question of how far the palatalization of the original *t goes, and that turns out to be an individual (or speech group) decision, which means it's variable, and may be subject to sociolinguistic factors, like education, social class, age, gender, location, etc
- is it a phrase - Is negotiation room a correct expression? - English . . .
A search for the phrase "some room for negotiation" in Google Books returns about 50 unique matches, while a search for the phrase "some negotiating room" returns about 45 unique matches; a search for the phrase "some room to negotiate" yields about 30 unique matches, as does a search for the phrase "some room for negotiating"; and a search for the phrase "some negotiation room" returns 20
- Whats a phrase for a compromise in which both sides are unhappy?
@DawoodibnKareem A “split-the-baby negotiation” today is a real compromise Even in the original story, telling both women that they could get half of the baby was a putative compromise, just one so horrific that the arbitrator did not expect it to actually happen, and only proposed it to get the parties to back down from their intractable positions
- expressions - meaning of negotiate your way out of - English Language . . .
In this article : " It’s baffling that Trump isn’t taking baseline cybersecurity measures at a time when he is trying to negotiate his way out of a trade war with China, a country that is known for using cyber tactics to gain the upper hand in business negotiations,”
- orthography - Should I use negotiate or negociate? - English Language . . .
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged lists "negociate" as an "archaic variant of negotiate", which means that it's not in common use anymore Given that, I would use "negotiate " Given that, I would use "negotiate "
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- word choice - Is there a nuanced difference between “intransigent . . .
The difference between "intransigent" and "unyielding" seems in my opinion to lie in the attitude of the locutor using the word or in an accepted point of view relative to the context: whereas in the first case certain possibilities seem to exist for finding a common ground but are systematically rejected (SOED, "unwilling to negotiate"), in
- Is there a word for “making two conflicting elements coexist together . . .
In your example, negotiate sounds more like hypocrisy is the individual's or society's own, perhaps semi-conscious, mechanism; whereas mediate feels very slightly more automatic, or passive in the non-grammatical sense
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