what is "I die a thousand deaths?" thanks.

thanks. you are right about the Taiwanese sentence. It looks like the original natives are still living there.

thanks a lot..

i found both singular and plural usages in a google search. are both acceptable? I think it should be plural, but I don't understand why there are so many usages in singular form on the Internet. thanks.

thanks. let's take underling for example, under- is a prefix, -ling is a suffix, so where is the root, base, or stem?

go to www.google.com and do exact search (in quotes) on football idiom, football slang, soccer idiom, and soccer slang.

Yes. Apparently back talking and backbiting are different. thanks, learn a new word backbiting today.

a word is made of three parts, prefix; root, stem, or base; and suffix. precisely is pre + cise + ly (all three, prefix, root and suffix) concise is con + cise (prefix and root) scissors - cise (root) so a word MAY be made of three

is this just some children talking back to you or does it also mean something else, like people talking behind your back?

my ranking is advice is most severe, then recommendation, then suggestion. advice seems to be from the top to the bottom, from the boss to the underling, from father to son. an advice is almost like a warning with consequence if you don't do it. a