For neither in ordinary speech nor in the Veda do we ever observe the employment of sentences devoid of a practical purpose: the employment of sentences not having such a purpose is in fact impossible.
The pronouns he and she are often used in poetry, and sometimes in ordinary speech, to personify objects (Sec.
The consequence is, that we have no singular pronoun of the second person in ordinary speech or prose, but make the plural you do duty for the singular.
In ordinary speech personification is very frequent: the pilot speaks of his boat as feminine; the engineer speaks so of his engine; etc.
In ordinary speech, to deny one kind of pavement is to assert pavement of some kind.
Meantime, let us take the word to cover what it undoubtedly covers in ordinary speech, the perceptible antecedent of a perceptible consequent.
Ordinary speech is practical; its end is to influence conduct; it is command, exhortation, prayer, or threat.
In the case of ordinary speech, the aim is to effect some change of mind in the interlocutor that will lead to an action beneficial to one or both of the persons concerned.
Since the appeal of poetry is to the sympathy and thoughtfulness which all men possess, there is no need that it be directed, as ordinary speech is, to particular men and women whose help or advantage is sought.
In ordinary speech, arm rhymes with calm, morning with fanning, higher with Sophia.
Proper names, as is well known, when they become mere appellatives, discharged of significance, are much more likely to vary than the words of ordinary speech.
But we go on repeating them, using sometimes words which we should never choose in ordinary speech, and yet never noticing that they are old-fashioned and quaint.
We can speak of the calibre of a person, meaning the quality of his character or intellect; but in French the word calibre is only in ordinary speech applied to things.
Hence in ordinary speech we separate the kinetic cow from its metakinetic symbols in consciousness (the convex from the concave aspect), and call the former the cow itself, and the latter our idea of the cow.
Of course, in ordinary speech, and even in careful scientific description, we are forced, if we would avoid pedantry, to skip backwards and forwards from the kinetic to the metakinetic.
In ordinary speech, when we pass and repass from motives to actions, and from actions to the feelings they may give rise to, we are apt to be forgetful of the depth of the chasm we so lightly leap.
Careful speakers pronounce been like bean, not like bin; most speakers, however, use the shortened form in ordinary speech.
In the former case a syllable which commonly is pronounced quickly and indistinctly is uttered more distinctly and more slowly than in ordinary speech.
The name of passion is further given, in ordinary speech, to any abiding interest, natural (p.
Action, although it is very loosely used in ordinary speech, so that we speak of the action of a horse or a sewing-machine, is the word that we naturally employ in referring to human conduct.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ordinary speech" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
