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What is the meaning of “shop-wise” in “… and talk turned shop-wise”?
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I read a sentence in Word by Word by Kory Stamper which was:
We had the restaurant mostly to ourselves, and talk turned shop-wise.
I want to ask what does shop-wise mean in the above sentence.
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I read a sentence in Word by Word by Kory Stamper which was:
We had the restaurant mostly to ourselves, and talk turned shop-wise.
I want to ask what does shop-wise mean in the above sentence.
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The cited usage is an unusual stylistic flourish (derived from colloquial talk shop = talk about work-related matters, riffing off constructions such as to turn clockwise). It's not "standard, typical" (and syntactically it's at least "questionable"), so learners should probably avoid copying it.
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I read a sentence in Word by Word by Kory Stamper which was:
We had the restaurant mostly to ourselves, and talk turned shop-wise.
I want to ask what does shop-wise mean in the above sentence.
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edited 2 hours ago
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I read a sentence in Word by Word by Kory Stamper which was:
We had the restaurant mostly to ourselves, and talk turned shop-wise.
I want to ask what does shop-wise mean in the above sentence.
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The cited usage is an unusual stylistic flourish (derived from colloquial talk shop = talk about work-related matters, riffing off constructions such as to turn clockwise). It's not "standard, typical" (and syntactically it's at least "questionable"), so learners should probably avoid copying it.
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The cited usage is an unusual stylistic flourish (derived from colloquial talk shop = talk about work-related matters, riffing off constructions such as to turn clockwise). It's not "standard, typical" (and syntactically it's at least "questionable"), so learners should probably avoid copying it.
– FumbleFingers
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The cited usage is an unusual stylistic flourish (derived from colloquial talk shop = talk about work-related matters, riffing off constructions such as to turn clockwise). It's not "standard, typical" (and syntactically it's at least "questionable"), so learners should probably avoid copying it.
– FumbleFingers
11 hours ago
The cited usage is an unusual stylistic flourish (derived from colloquial talk shop = talk about work-related matters, riffing off constructions such as to turn clockwise). It's not "standard, typical" (and syntactically it's at least "questionable"), so learners should probably avoid copying it.
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To "talk shop" means to talk about work/business. See Merriam Webster:
to talk about work
They like to talk shop during lunch.
The -wise suffix means with respect to, concerning. For example: "security-wise" means concerning security, about security.
So "talk turned shop-wise" means they started to talk about work.
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Without the full context, it's hard to know if it literally means that they began talking about a previously mentioned shop ("shop-wise" meaning "about/related to a shop").
More likely they began "talking shop", which means to talk about the work they have to do.
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To "talk shop" means to talk about work/business. See Merriam Webster:
to talk about work
They like to talk shop during lunch.
The -wise suffix means with respect to, concerning. For example: "security-wise" means concerning security, about security.
So "talk turned shop-wise" means they started to talk about work.
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To "talk shop" means to talk about work/business. See Merriam Webster:
to talk about work
They like to talk shop during lunch.
The -wise suffix means with respect to, concerning. For example: "security-wise" means concerning security, about security.
So "talk turned shop-wise" means they started to talk about work.
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To "talk shop" means to talk about work/business. See Merriam Webster:
to talk about work
They like to talk shop during lunch.
The -wise suffix means with respect to, concerning. For example: "security-wise" means concerning security, about security.
So "talk turned shop-wise" means they started to talk about work.
answered 12 hours ago
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To "talk shop" means to talk about work/business. See Merriam Webster:
to talk about work
They like to talk shop during lunch.
The -wise suffix means with respect to, concerning. For example: "security-wise" means concerning security, about security.
So "talk turned shop-wise" means they started to talk about work.
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Without the full context, it's hard to know if it literally means that they began talking about a previously mentioned shop ("shop-wise" meaning "about/related to a shop").
More likely they began "talking shop", which means to talk about the work they have to do.
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Without the full context, it's hard to know if it literally means that they began talking about a previously mentioned shop ("shop-wise" meaning "about/related to a shop").
More likely they began "talking shop", which means to talk about the work they have to do.
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Without the full context, it's hard to know if it literally means that they began talking about a previously mentioned shop ("shop-wise" meaning "about/related to a shop").
More likely they began "talking shop", which means to talk about the work they have to do.
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Without the full context, it's hard to know if it literally means that they began talking about a previously mentioned shop ("shop-wise" meaning "about/related to a shop").
More likely they began "talking shop", which means to talk about the work they have to do.
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The cited usage is an unusual stylistic flourish (derived from colloquial talk shop = talk about work-related matters, riffing off constructions such as to turn clockwise). It's not "standard, typical" (and syntactically it's at least "questionable"), so learners should probably avoid copying it.
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