Nate Eldredge

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8h	comment	How would you apply the idiom “I'm $verb'ed out” to “eat”? @Kris: "I'm eaten out" could be subject to, shall we say, misinterpretation. Especially if the speaker is female.
8h	comment	What is the difference between “curd” and “yogurt”? Nitpick: I believe the curds in cottage cheese are composed largely of protein (casein), not just fat. Note, for instance, that they have a very different texture from butter (which is mainly fat).
2d	answered	Is there a word that means, “Group with a distinguished member?”
May 20	awarded	Civic Duty
May 1	comment	Does “up to 10Kg” include 10Kg? The title has a typo, and I think "10Kg-XKg" is backwards. Also, the question is not stated very clearly in the body. Please proofread and edit.
Apr 16	comment	what on earth does “cheap at half the price” mean? The link is broken.
Apr 14	comment	Does “salt mines” have any specific meaning? IMHO "common knowledge" is often wrong and is even more in need of evidence. For instance, my understanding was that in "classical times", salt was produced by evaporating sea water, rather than mining. I certainly agree that salt mining is understood to be unpleasant, hence the idiom, but more specific historical claims ("staffed by slaves", "considered a death sentence") ought to be justified.
Apr 8	comment	Is there a 1950's American accent? On a tangent, McAuliffe's "Nuts" quote appears to have been accurate. A eyewitness reports that "nuts" is what he said, and "nuts" is what he wrote in the note to the Germans. There doesn't seem to be any evidence that he actually said anything else, only speculation.
Apr 5	comment	Is “Dutch wife” one of those “Dutch words”? The question is about the origin; the asker already knows these definitions.
Mar 27	comment	Does ‘Yo’ in ‘yo mama joke’ actually refer to “Your” mother? Why couldn't it simply be (stupid / fat / ugly) “mama joke”? Related: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dozens
Mar 2	comment	Accents of characters in Downton Abbey Here is a meta thread about the appropriateness of this question and its ilk.
Mar 1	awarded	Quorum
Mar 1	comment	In which accent does Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) speak? I started a meta thread.
Mar 1	comment	In which accent does Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) speak? A question about the accents of Downton Abbey characters was recently closed as "too localized". This question may meet the same fate. On the other hand, the Downton Abbey question had a +7 score, so apparently there was some interest. Maybe a meta thread is in order on questions like this.
Feb 22	comment	Should Philip have P. or Ph. as an initial? But these are rarely used in modern times, and would not appear in place of initials.
Feb 16	comment	What is the shortest term to refer to people whose mother tongue is English? "I do not believe that the term 'mothertonguers' would be generally well received": A masterpiece of understatement.
Feb 16	comment	What is the shortest term to refer to people whose mother tongue is English? -1: "Anglo", at least in the US, is understood as referring to a person whose ethnic and cultural background can be traced to England. If you referred to a native English speaker of African or Latino descent as an "Anglo", you would certainly cause confusion and very likely offense.
Jan 30	comment	Why don’t we write poetry like Beowulf any longer? Why don't we? In the immortal words of David Bowie, Oooh, aah, Fashion!
Jan 27	comment	Eggs fried/scrambled “over easy” or “over hard” — refers to the pan, the egg, or something else? I'm pretty sure over medium and over hard are recognized terms: they all mean that the egg should be fried on both sides, but cooked more than over easy. An egg cooked over easy will have a fully cooked white but a runny yolk, when over medium the yolk is mostly congealed, and when over hard the yolk is completely solid. I've ordered eggs both ways in restaurants (in the US) and never been asked to clarify. It's neither exceedingly rare nor facetious, just not as popular among diners. Google has lots of hits for both.
Jan 27	comment	A word for a person who is made a villain by their circumstances, not necessarily by their actions @SqlRyan: Another word for the DEA agents in this context might be mooks.