So, "Some advice" or "some advices"? Which is correct?
2015年10月23日 · However, advices are being used in the English language in a different meaning as follows and its plural forms are also defined in some dictionaries including Oxford Online Dictionary: A formal notice of a financial transaction: ‘remittance advices’ (also advices) archaic Information; news: ‘the want of fresh advices from Europe’
"Advice" vs. "an advice" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2012年1月23日 · ‘late advices from France’ And it appears innumerable times in the compendium below to mean dispatches with regard to history and diplomacy and newspapers and in the Wikipedia definition . The compendium is from something called the The Commercial and Financial Chronicle , Vol. 110 from the National News Service incorporated in 1920.
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I think "advices" is perfectly okay, since we're talking jargon here. If you look at the PostSharp documentation (a popular .NET aspect-oriented framework), you'll see a namespace called PostSharp.Aspects.Advices. Google searches for "advices" coupled with other tools like AspectJ also show that it's common usage.
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2010年9月26日 · Yes, the first statement is a "natural" construction. And yes you can use the second statement instead. It wouldn't impact your formality in a big way, and it's not impolite, though all things being equal I guess you could say it's slightly less formal or polite because it contains slightly less polite hedging.
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What is the plural of “remittance advice”?
2020年2月12日 · But like you, I do find “advices” does not quite ring true. But then again, perhaps “a remittance advice” would generate the same dissonance if not for its idiomatic force. I think it’s because we are used to advice as uncountable (“I gave you advice” not “I gave you an advice”) and yet remittance advices are clearly countable.
What word describes someone who offers unsolicited advice?
2012年8月29日 · smarty-pants. smarty-pants: a person who talks and behaves like someone who knows everything . smart aleck. smart aleck: an obnoxiously and self-assertive person with pretensions to smartness and cleverness
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2021年7月27日 · To say that one has taken somebody's advice will normally be understood to mean that one has not only heard, understood, and considered the advice, but that, upon considering it, one has determined that the advice is well justified and worthy of being followed.
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Advice vs. Suggestion Why is the latter countable?
From an outsider, I think advice and suggestion have similar meanings. But I don't understand why the noun suggestion is countable whereas advice isn't. We can ask: Can you give me two or t...