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Does the Word laden Carry a Negative Connotation? But when used with other sentences, like, The banks are laden with debt ; Then laden carries a negative connotation, dictionaries describe "laden" as being burdened with something, so does it always carry a negative connotation? Just for the purpose of questioning its usage, what if one were to say, He came in laden with presents
laden vs. loaded - English Language Usage Stack Exchange heavily laden: trees heavily laden with fruit A person can be described as "laden with grief", as HotLicks said in his comment In summary, laden is a very old word that is used in the US as a technical term in shipping and in a semi-poetic way, but not used for loaded cars
Is “have the steel” an idiom in the statement, “Mitt Romney would have . . . I found the phrase “ have the steel ” in the following sentence of Time magazine’s article (April 30) titled, “Why Obama Owns bin Laden ” “Judging from the Republican response, President Obama's ad asking whether Mitt Romney would have ordered the raid that captured Osama bin Laden raises serious questions There is a kind of biographical line running between those dusty sparring
Colourful Language with regards to swearing Why is expletive laden, or coarse language often referred to as being colourful colorful? Oxford Dictionaries define it, colourful 2 2 (of language) vulgar or rude ‘colorful words usually
What is the proper term for when an animal is pregnant with eggs . . . @AlainPannetierΦ that's the word for the animals themselves that give birth by eggs (and viviparous describing animals with live births), not the state of the animal right before the proto-animals are expelled The latter is what the OP is looking for, i e the synonym of pregnant but when you're about to pop out some eggs rather than a live child
punctuation - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Depends what you mean by should From a grammatical point of view, no From the point of view of making your writing clear — yes, it is not a matter of opinion Why? To avoid what Fowler in A Dictionary of Modern English Usage called false scent Simplifying by leaving out ‘super’, if I read: heavy duty construction the first word I encounter is an adjective, ‘heavy’, and this is