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| bio | website | careers.stackoverflow.com/… |
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| location | Helsinki, Finland | |
| age | 34 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 9 months |
| seen | yesterday | |
| stats | profile views | 157 |
I'm a second-language speaker of what I believe is a fairly "neutral" flavour of English (if such a thing exists), mainly influenced by British and American varieties. I tend to prefer British spellings but I'm afraid I sound more American when I talk. :-)
I take an interest in languages, their evolution and history, and all those subtle variations between different dialects and registers. After secondary school I was actually close to going to study English Philology at university, but ended up taking Computer Science instead. Now I am a software developer by profession, and languages remain mainly a hobby for me. (Not only a hobby, as I think good prose writing skills are important in my field. For the last 7 years or so English has been the main written language I've used at work.)
Besides English and my native Finnish, I'm nowadays quite adept at Spanish too (it's my favourite language in a way, especially if spoken with a Cuban accent and when drunk). My Swedish and German are rusty, but re-learnable if need arises.
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Aug 18 |
answered | When can “have” be used without “got”? |
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Aug 18 |
comment |
Why is “ain't” not listed in dictionaries? You are linking to Wiktionary, not Wikipedia, and I think that article is relatively helpful... "Ain't" indeed works with I, you, we, that, etc. but calling it "wildcard" would sound a bit misleading to me. |
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Aug 18 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Aug 18 |
accepted | Contemporary written usage of “whom” in objective case |
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Aug 14 |
revised |
Equivalences between Australian English and American English edited tags |
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Aug 14 |
revised |
Are “betwixt”, “trebble”, etc., acceptable in American English? edited tags |
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Aug 14 |
revised |
Is the usage of “speaks to” new? Is it American? edited tags |
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Aug 13 |
revised |
Are the endings “-zation” and “-sation” interchangeable? edited tags |
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Aug 13 |
comment |
Are the endings “-zation” and “-sation” interchangeable? The question was already answered, but for further details, see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… |
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Aug 13 |
comment |
How should I end sentences with a URL as the last word? That's a url, not email address, in the example :) But yes, good question. |
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Aug 12 |
awarded | Beta |
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Aug 12 |
revised |
When is it acceptable to use Internet abbreviations such as “u” or “r”? edited tags |
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Aug 11 |
awarded | Student |
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Aug 11 |
asked | Regulatory bodies and authoritative dictionaries for English |
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Aug 11 |
comment |
Should I put a comma before the last item in a list? May I suggest an edit? In the first sentence, replacing "This" with e.g. "Using comma before the last item" would make it clearer. (When first reading this, I was confused as to which of the two cases you meant, before realising it was a reference to question title.) |
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Aug 11 |
comment |
When is it acceptable to use Internet abbreviations such as “u” or “r”? @njd, agreed, very good point. |
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Aug 10 |
revised |
“Assume”, “presume”, “suppose” edited tags |
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Aug 10 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Aug 10 |
comment |
What is the best format to use when writing out dates? And if someone knows of situations where some longer form (e.g. "the first of April, 2010") would be the most preferable, please tell! |
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Aug 10 |
revised |
Is there a correct gender-neutral, singular pronoun (“his” versus “her” versus “their”)? edited tags |
