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This tag is for questions seeking a word that fits a meaning. Please demonstrate why you expect the word to exist in English. For example you could tell us a word that means the same in another language. Please use a bilingual dictionary and include the result of your research. Please include a sample sentence demonstrating how the word would be used. If you actually seek a phrase, or don't care, see the "phrase-request" tag.
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Someone/thing that a responder responds to is called?
It depends on what the person or thing is. It could be an emergency, an event, a message, a question, etc.
"Prompt" might be a good general noun to describe most cases, but it is not universal. For e …
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People who share the same native language are language mates?
There is not a common word for this in English. Your invented term of "language mates" will probably be understood, so feel free to use it.
You could also say something like:
Happy holidays to al …
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A term for someone who can keep a lot of secrets
More idiomatic terms are tight-lipped and closemouthed. They could be considered antonyms to "big mouthed", and means the same thing as Barid's more formal answer, reticent.
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terms for general phrases and more specific phrases attesting to them
I was not aware of any specific term for the independent clauses preceding the colons in your examples, and my search for such a term was not successful. One could reasonably call these "introductory …
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The friendship of auntie bear
There is a somewhat similar idiom in English:
With friends like that, who needs enemies?
However, this idiom is not reserved for good intent. For example it could also apply to a supposed friend …
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