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I speak UK English with a slight scottish twist

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Apr 14	comment	An idiom meaning someone's doing something useless and has no result at the end No, sorry. I see why you read it that way but the main idea is that you're doing something unnecessary because it's superfluous or already done.
Apr 14	comment	An idiom meaning someone's doing something useless and has no result at the end @DQdlM - yes I think I may have overstated it.
Apr 14	comment	Are “rode” and “rowed” pronounced the same? Personally I think I use a shorter vowel sound in "rode" but that may just be me. FWIW.
Apr 13	comment	How to say “generating errors” in one word? No, he's looking for a word that describes a file that causes a program to throw an exception. Like a test file for a use case that causes the code to throw an exception?
Apr 13	comment	An idiom meaning someone's doing something useless and has no result at the end I'm (UK) more familiar with blood from a stone, rather than turnip.
Apr 13	comment	An idiom meaning someone's doing something useless and has no result at the end It does but it also conveys a vision of impending catastrophe which does not appear relevant. Still a nice image though.
Apr 13	comment	How to say “generating errors” in one word? But he is referring to the type of files that trigger the exception, not the exception.
Apr 13	comment	How to say “generating errors” in one word? "Problem files" is one term I've seen used. I wouldn't say they generate the errors though, they demonstrate the existence of errors in the code.
Apr 12	comment	Inclusive “or” in speech I'd just add that programming "or" is the Boolean "OR" operator which has a specificity not in the English language word "or". Just as "and" differs as well.
Mar 27	comment	Is this hypothetical (if-clause) question grammatically correct? @DavidWallace - of course, organization is singular. And Andrew is correct as well. Both +1
Mar 27	comment	Is this hypothetical (if-clause) question grammatically correct? While you're grammatically correct the word "backdoor" is common parlance in IT security. I'm also unsure about was->were as the sentence is so clumsy I'm not sure if the "who" refers to the admin or the organization. If I were an admin responsible for the security of an organisation's network and (I was/they were) using X products in their network, how would I know for sure whether these products had backdoors in them?
Mar 22	comment	Is “Please to” proper English? @John - forums.randi.org
Mar 21	comment	Technical term for `avoiding responsibility` with decision-makers? +1 Pete. Also suggest you start here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster and follow the links for further reading
Mar 20	comment	Is “Please to” proper English? Embarassingly enough on another forum I use a "Grammar police - to serve and correct" badge as my avatar.
Mar 15	comment	“I have no story to be told” or “I have no story to tell”? Good points FF, but sometimes it's exactly those nuances that make the opening of a book/song/poem work. I enjoy thinking about them anyway
Mar 15	comment	Use of “B defers to A” when A takes precedence over B @AffableGeek. Sorry, maybe my google-fu is weak but I can't find any usage of deign as a synonym for defer.
Mar 15	comment	Use of “B defers to A” when A takes precedence over B I'm dubious of "deigns". I would only use it in the form "A deigns to do b"
Mar 15	comment	Pronunciation of “loch” Well this Scot agrees with you but also reserves the right to poke fun at anyone pronouncing it thus. ;-) +1
Mar 15	comment	Pronunciation of “loch” So the Scots and Welsh aren't Brits?
Jan 19	comment	Suitable abstraction for Email and SMS This is similar to what IBM's Sametime client does. Right click on a contact and there's an option "Send>" - select that and you get the option to send announcement or email.