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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Feb 2	answered	What's a word for avoiding a question with a generic (fake) answer?
Feb 2	comment	Is “cookie” a recent addition to Australian English? It's actually illegal to refer to them as "Anzac cookies"! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzac_biscuit#Legal_issues
Feb 2	asked	Is “cookie” a recent addition to Australian English?
Jan 27	comment	Difference between “no” and “nope” @FumbleFingers Yahoo! answers is not general reference. It's too unreliable. (The Yahoo! answers link didn't cite any dictionaries, so it wasn't pointing to a general reference)
Jan 26	comment	“I went to bed hungry” vs. “I went to bed hungrily” This is talking about being hungry for food, not for sex or something else, right?
Jan 22	awarded	Enthusiast
Jan 20	comment	Is “tidbits” Bowdlerized or original? @StoneyB the two words are not cognates, according to Wiktionary. tit is from Old English titt, whereas teat is from French tette.
Jan 18	asked	Is “I'm not racist, but …” more common in Australian English than other dialects?
Jan 17	comment	Meaning and etymology of “down with” Context may be your best bet here.
Jan 17	comment	“The proverbial wedding ring”? @Robusto if the OP tried looking it up, they'd be up the proverbial creek without a paddle. (In this case, I used "proverbial" as a way to avoid saying a certain word, whereas that doesn't apply in this text)
Jan 17	comment	More specific antonym to “lodger” than “landlord” I was after a more specific term, not a more general term.
Jan 17	asked	More specific antonym to “lodger” than “landlord”
Jan 17	comment	“The proverbial wedding ring”? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_units_of_measurement
Jan 16	accepted	Is it unidiomatic to say “an Australian person” or “an Aussie person”?
Jan 16	asked	Is it unidiomatic to say “an Australian person” or “an Aussie person”?
Jan 15	comment	Phrasing “An hour's rest” Related question: english.stackexchange.com/questions/29220/…
Jan 15	accepted	Is it safe to use “old” to mean “previous” for a person?
Jan 14	answered	What does humor-challenged mean?
Jan 14	revised	What does humor-challenged mean? edited tags
Jan 14	comment	Is “Roman alphabet” what we use for English? That's strange - the noun for putting a different text into the Latin alphabet is "romanization".