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Me speaks English wurds good.

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Aug 25	comment	“Caretaker” vs “Caregiver” To be honest, answers that just quote dictionaries without providing any analysis on usage or etymology always kind of disappoint me. Also, more specific to Stack Exchange ethos and rules, if the question can be answered with just dictionary entries, then shouldn't it be closed for lack of basic research?
Aug 25	comment	“Caretaker” vs “Caregiver” @ShreevatsaR: Why on earth would anyone dislike "caregiver"?
Aug 23	comment	Pronunciation of “Einstein” Even if you knew a 100,000 Americans intimately (which isn't possible in one lifetime), your sample survey is less than .0003% of them. If we talk about English speakers globally, your survey drops off to complete insignificance. Your personal experience, like all personal experience, is completely discountable when making demographic assessments. In any case, lighthearted as it may be, it's just symptomatic of an overall poor answer. You provide no evidence of an inability of English speakers to handle the necessary `sh` sound in question in general, nor of Einstein's situation in particular.
Aug 23	comment	Pronunciation of “Einstein” The supposition "let's face it, English speakers are among the worst when it comes to not being able to pronounce words of another language" is just totally baseless, biased, and not helpful for answering the question.
Aug 20	comment	Does ‘Power Point (something) away’ have currency in the English language, or is its use limited to this one columnist? Sorry, I just don't see how any of this background information or personal reflection on Ms Dowd, whether you like her or not, is necessary to explain the rather ordinary turn of phrase "PowerPoint away". I don't mean to be disparaging, I'm sincerely just confused as to why this answer got accepted and Jim's didn't.
Aug 17	comment	Does ‘Power Point (something) away’ have currency in the English language, or is its use limited to this one columnist? One does not need to know anything about Ms Dowd, or have any particular relation to New York, to understand the phrase "Power Point away". This answer is more of a love letter to Ms Dowd than an attempt to really answer the question.
Aug 17	revised	Does ‘Power Point (something) away’ have currency in the English language, or is its use limited to this one columnist? Corrected the mis-use of the word "currency" in the title. Actually, the whole title could be better phrased without using "currency" at all, but I tried to preserve the author's original intentions as much as possible.
Aug 17	suggested	suggested edit on Does ‘Power Point (something) away’ have currency in the English language, or is its use limited to this one columnist?
Aug 16	comment	Another verb for “to skate by” or “to skirt by” My understanding of to "skate by" or "skirt by" is that they get around or past something with ease. It implies they didn't actually do the activity in question. If one wanted to say someone actually did something with ease or minimal effort, one would say "skate through". "Skirt" doesn't work for actually doing something though, as it means to "go around or past the edge of."
Aug 16	answered	What does “If women were a country…” mean?
Aug 16	comment	What does “campy” mean? @ΜετάEd - Whether or not Urban Dictionary is, on the whole, unreliable, does not mean any one definition is or is not incorrect. In this case, that definition matches close enough to how I have understood the term that it seems correct to me. The point being that while Urban Dictionary has no authority, it still can be useful if someone happens to have posted a definition that is phrased in a way that works.
Aug 16	revised	Is there a word for preparation with a negative connotation? Added clarification about the necessity of pre-existing ideas as a cause in the meaning.
Aug 14	comment	Is there a word for preparation with a negative connotation? I think that the unfortunate thing here is that prejudiced might mean exactly what I'm looking for, but unfortunately in modern usage it has so much additional baggage associated with forms of discrimination, especially racial contexts, that if I said this to anyone, they would almost certainly think I was accusing them of being a bigot.
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Aug 13	comment	What is the origin of “bite me”? @Mitch: I flagged the other as a duplicate of this. They are definitely the same question and topic, but I think the answers are better on this one.
Aug 13	comment	Meaning and usage of “bite me” Plausible history here: english.stackexchange.com/a/78100/10974
Aug 13	comment	Meaning and usage of “bite me” I have never heard "bite my crank", and would not know that "crank" was in any way a variant of "cock". However, it does ring true that "bite me" evolved from "suck my cock". My understanding of the evolution was there was a shift from "suck" to "bite" simply by virture of both being tethered to the concept of the use of the mouth. The words merely changed because people are always looking for variants and flourishes when it comes to slang hostilities.
Aug 13	comment	The word for the share of rows that has a value in a certain column I agree that a word for this almost certainly doesn't exist. However, I think that if you are in an environment where you could develop a consensus among the people you are dealing with, you could probably get the term "fill rate" to stick (not "filling rate", which doesn't feel native enough). New terms in a language have to start somewhere, and why not with you? ;)