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faith in the power of language; belief that reality is affected by the spoken word; speaking of a lucky (or unlucky) event will bring it about

heroic words; big talk; boasting; bragging; grandiloquence; rodomontade

Declaration of Independence (the document)

repeated word or phrase; redundant wording; succession of words of similar meaning; pleonasm

Computing

markup language

saying whatever one feels; speaking at random; making careless remarks; rambling talk

Linguistics

sa-added word (i.e. causative forms with an extra 'sa' like 'ikasaseru' for 'iku')

Okinawan (language); Okinawan dialect

Computing

basic multi-lingual plane; BMP

activist shareholder; outspoken shareholder

it is hard to explain; it is hard to say

eeny, meeny, miny, moe; eenie, meenie, minie, moe

Kogi Shingon ("Old Shingon" school of Buddhism)

Linguistics

sociolect; social dialect

computational linguistics

Proverb

money talks

first person to say something; first person to suggest something; person who originated something

historical linguistics

corpus linguistics

Computing

procedure declaration

Computing

procedural language

language policy

refined speech of the uptown residents of Tokyo

successful kyogen play; hit