→ zofloya:沒有前後文，你要怎麼解讀都可以 04/11 11:54
→ zofloya:語言有象徵意義，有字面上意義，contexts always matter 04/11 11:56
推 fhsd4264:context doesn't matter here. cold, hard cash is just 04/11 21:13
→ fhsd4264:cash. It's a way of emphasizing "cash" 04/11 21:13
→ zofloya:then you don't know about language, or story-telling 04/11 23:00
→ dunchee:-> 10 ... 04/11 23:13
→ zofloya:i know what dictionary says,i was talking aboutcontext 04/11 23:19
→ zofloya:you guys never have fun of pun? 04/11 23:20
→ dunchee:如果你讀的是文章/故事/小說，那麼是有可能有其它引申涵意 04/11 23:26
→ dunchee:，不過單純的字面(比如片語介紹之類的書)上就是字典記載的 04/11 23:26
→ dunchee:意思(也許你只是要知道這較字面/直接意思? 總之以後問問題 04/11 23:27
→ dunchee:最好說明一下是怎樣的情形) 04/11 23:27
推 fhsd4264:What kind of puns do you have with cash? Hell, no one 04/12 11:10
→ fhsd4264:uses cash anymore. We have credit cards now.. 04/12 11:11
推 zofloya:that's why i said you don't know about story-telling 04/12 11:43
推 fhsd4264:Mate, come back when you have one pun. Seriously. 04/12 12:01
→ fhsd4264:Cold hard cash is used to emphasize that I physically 04/12 12:01
→ fhsd4264:am holding on to money, as opposed to digits in the 04/12 12:02
推 zofloya:A: Nowadays people tend to use credit cards instead 04/12 12:14
→ zofloya:of hard cash. 04/12 12:14
→ zofloya:B: well, I always earn hard cash. Never earn easy 04/12 12:14
→ zofloya:money in my life. 04/12 12:14
→ zofloya:if you just have a bit sense of writing, you would 04/12 12:16
→ zofloya:know contexts always matter 04/12 12:17
推 fhsd4264:1) The expression is always "cold hard cash". 04/12 17:05
→ fhsd4264:2) Context. Contexts is user to refer to multiple 04/12 17:06
→ fhsd4264:contexts, and there is only one being referred to. 04/12 17:06
→ fhsd4264:3) If you're going to call out my writing ability, 04/12 17:08
→ fhsd4264:why don't you provide something you wrote? The reason 04/12 17:08
→ fhsd4264:you irk me so is because you started attacking me. 04/12 17:09
→ fhsd4264:4) Also, if context always matters, then why do we 04/12 17:10
→ fhsd4264:need dictionaries? If you /need/ context, then it's a 04/12 17:10
→ fhsd4264:social context. 04/12 17:10
→ zofloya:then i give you cold hard cash, can't you just make it 04/12 17:18
→ zofloya:yourself based on the example i just wrote for you? 04/12 17:19
→ zofloya:A: Nowadays people tend to use credit cards instead of 04/12 17:19
→ zofloya:cold hard cash. 04/12 17:19
→ zofloya:B:well, i always earn cold hard cash, and thus i use 04/12 17:20
→ zofloya:it instead of credit card. Actually, I've never 04/12 17:22
→ zofloya:earned easy money in my life. 04/12 17:22
→ zofloya:by the way, it's not always "cold hard cash", didn't 04/12 17:23
→ zofloya:you see the link dunchee provided above? 04/12 17:23
→ zofloya:and you refuted my statement first, i am just 04/12 17:24
→ zofloya:defending it 04/12 17:25
→ zofloya:and again, context always matters when it comes to 04/12 17:27
→ zofloya:language learning, which doesn't imply dictionaries 04/12 17:27
→ zofloya:are not necessary 04/12 17:27
推 tengharold:With the real estate market being so cold, hard 04/13 01:53
→ tengharold:cash flow is preferred over equity appreciation. 04/13 01:54
→ tengharold:In this sentence, cold, hard cash does not refer to 04/13 01:55
→ tengharold:cash in the ordinary context. Context is necessary. 04/13 01:56
→ tengharold: *sense 04/13 01:56
→ tengharold:BTW, I'm with z on asking people for context before 04/13 02:20
→ tengharold:answering questions, because context is usually 04/13 02:20
→ tengharold:easy to provide (just post the full sentence) but 04/13 02:21
→ tengharold:can help immensely in the solution. 04/13 02:21
推 l10nel:z&t: Hear, hear! One can never overstate the importance 04/13 05:45
→ l10nel:of context. 04/13 05:48