Andrew Grimm

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I work at the University of New South Wales, where I use Ruby to analyze biological data.

In part of my spare time, I work on fun programming projects. One was trying to analyze what underlies Wikipedia's Get to Philosophy game. I also worked on one called the "Small Eigen Collider".

I'm currently learning Japanese, and I'm an active participant in lang-8.com, a website where you write journal entries in a language you're learning, and get corrected by native speakers of that language. In return, you correct people writing entries in your native language. Recently, I've been asking a few questions prompted by slightly incorrect English I've encountered on lang-8.

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May 9	accepted	Should words be capitalized because they're loanwords?
Apr 21	accepted	Does “Chinese laundry” have any non-literal meaning?
Apr 21	accepted	Are “Czech Republic” and “Chechnya” cognates?
Apr 13	accepted	Is “in in vitro” acceptable?
Apr 10	accepted	Does the noun “stable” have meanings other than “place for animals”?
Apr 9	accepted	Is “Dutch wife” one of those “Dutch words”?
Mar 20	accepted	Is “geisha girl” used to refer to actual geisha?
Mar 20	accepted	Is “cookie” a recent addition to Australian English?
Mar 13	accepted	Is “great” used by native speakers to describe calamities any more?
Feb 15	accepted	“Not so much” at the end of a sentence
Feb 11	accepted	Has “Kinki” become less common than “Kansai” because of the word “kinky”?
Feb 4	accepted	More specific antonym to “lodger” than “landlord”
Jan 16	accepted	Is it unidiomatic to say “an Australian person” or “an Aussie person”?
Jan 15	accepted	Is it safe to use “old” to mean “previous” for a person?
Jan 13	accepted	Did the “We shall fight on the beaches” speech mainly use words from Old English? If so, why?
Jan 8	accepted	Should words be capitalized for being religious terms?
Jan 7	accepted	Is “early mark” only used in Australia and New Zealand?
Jan 7	accepted	What's meant by wishing for a child “as red as blood, and white as snow”?
Jan 7	accepted	More accurate synonyms than “Mayan apocalypse”
Jan 7	accepted	For people, can you say “a British” like you can say “an Australian”?