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Babujee Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

flipside

1. There is a flipside of the issue.

2. There is a flipside to the issue.

I think the second one is better. Is the first one wrong?
  

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"There is a flipside of the issue" is wrong. There cannot be more than one flipside to anything. So " a flipside of the issue" sounds weird, though you can use the phrase " the flipside of the issue" as follows.

— Paco2004

  • "There is a flipside of the issue" is wrong.
  • There cannot be more than one flipside to anything.
  • So " a flipside of the issue" sounds weird, though you can use the phrase " the flipside of the issue" as follows.
  • Clinton : George, there is a flipside to that issue.
  • Bush : Really?
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"There is a flipside of the issue" is wrong. There cannot be more than one flipside to anything. So "a flipside of the issue" sounds weird, though you can use the phrase "the flipside of the issue" as follows.
Clinton : George, there is a flipside to that issue.
Bush : Really? What's the flipside of the issue?
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It's two words: flip side.

Perhaps dice have several flip sides, or tetrahedra, and such. What do you think? Do we use the term only when something is two-sided? (Most 'issues' have more than two sides, I'd say.)
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"flip side" originates from the vinyl disks called "records" that used to be used long ago for recording music. These had only two sides, so I'd say dice don't have flip sides -- that it would be anomalous to refer to the flip side of dice (and the like). Even though issues have many "sides", you can, however, have a flip side to an issue when you only consider it from the point of view of
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Yes, it should be "flip side". Thanks for the remark.

paco
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