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Courtkanee Posted 21 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

The use of slang

In my essay I use the term "turn of the century".....

It seemed pretty “turn of the century” when you email your friends in the labor room.

Is this slang? Is it too informal?
  

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Turn of the century in itself is not at all informal, Court. As an adjective, turn-of-the-century is also common: I have a fine turn-of-the-century jardiniere . If anything, the phrase seems rather over-formal in the casual sentence of your example; nor can I quite understand your meaning-- it seemed pretty old-fashioned ?

— Mister Micawber

  • Turn of the century in itself is not at all informal, Court.
  • As an adjective, turn-of-the-century is also common: I have a fine turn-of-the-century jardiniere .
  • If anything, the phrase seems rather over-formal in the casual sentence of your example; nor can I quite understand your meaning-- it seemed pretty old-fashioned ?
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Turn of the century in itself is not at all informal, Court. As an adjective, turn-of-the-century is also common: I have a fine turn-of-the-century jardiniere. If anything, the phrase seems rather over-formal in the casual sentence of your example; nor can I quite understand your meaning-- it seemed pretty old-fashioned?

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I had the wrong impression of turn of the century. I changed it to high tech.

It seemed pretty “high tech” when you email your friends in the labor room.

Should I capitalize the H and mark it with "quotations or not. When including thoughts in a paper should I also use quotations marks?

” I thought to myself “Relax! How can I relax when you are planning a major operati
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High tech and the adjective high-tech are quite common phrases now, so no need to enclose them in quotation marks or capitalize.

Yes, I would use quotation marks for thoughts.
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