Saturday, December 6, 2008

Idiomatic-Literal Script

Idiomatic-peculiar, vernacular: "My father, who had a heart attack last summer, is not a spring chicken. He'll be pushing up daisies soon."
Insipid-uninteresting, dull: "I know what you mean. My dad gets sick a lot."
Jargon-vocabulary for a professional: "Your father must have had atherosclerosis, which obstructed his arteries. Did he receive a rescue angioplasty?"
Learned-educated, experienced: "As a cardiologist, I treat heart failures everyday. Coronary artery disease is the main cause with most of the cases I've seen."
Literal-apparent, word for word: "If your parents were diagnosed with CAD before the age of 55, it will increase your risk of a heart attack by 80%. Women are 25% more likely than men to die of heart failure."

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