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hypothetical

good words and good deeds

as we would say nowadays

official language

poem of eight lines, each of five (Chinese) characters

to tell the truth; in actuality; in reality

monolingual; single-language

Proverb

a samurai never goes back on his word

taciturn; reticent

second language

categorical statement

bureaucratic jargon; officialese; gobbledygook

repetitious harping of the elderly; oft-repeated tales by old folks; tedious and repetitive talk of old people; old man's rambling

very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style)

dialectology

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functional language

word created by retaining the first syllable (or two) of a word and suffixing it with the word "moji"

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scripting language; script language

prefatory words; epigraph

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conversational language

to speak in tongues

testamentary document

declaration of a state of emergency

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