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| bio | website | marksmayo.com |
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| location | London, United Kingdom | |
| age | 32 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 7 months |
| seen | 13 mins ago | |
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Completed a first class Honours Degree in Computer Science back in 2002.
Been jumping between development and test since, and my niche is probably developing automated test frameworks and systems. But I enjoy venturing into the unknown and trying new things and have worked in a variety of domains, from network communication to air traffic control to gaming platforms.
Also love my travelling and photography, and am getting into writing.
"In theory, this should work..."
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Sub-classification or subclassification? Despite it existing with one on some dictionary sites? |
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Sub-classification or subclassification? Finer granularity. If you were talking about say, an industry that is booming, you might say industry classification ... "IT", sub(-)classification "mobile gaming". |
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Feb 7 |
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Is vomit an excretion? expulsion, possibly? |
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Oct 2 |
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Does the washing up fairy exist outside of Australia? Just because it's in Australia does NOT mean it's in NZ too! ........ but yes, we have it in NZ too. |
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Jul 20 |
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Who speaks South African English (out of the many languages/ethnicities spoken in SA)? As I said above - "There's a VERY big difference between English SAE accent and Afrikaans SAE accent". By this I mean those who are 'English' or 'Afrikaner' who speak English. I'm going to update my answer with a link I think may help with this. |
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Jul 20 |
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The use of “hey” in North America Ah yes. However, He certainly seemed to think it was that "for horses one". |
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Jul 20 |
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Who speaks South African English (out of the many languages/ethnicities spoken in SA)? well my first thought was "duh, South Africans speak South African English", until I read the question. After I read it, however, it certainly got an upvote and an answer. So not sure on their downvote reason :/ |
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Jul 20 |
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Who speaks South African English (out of the many languages/ethnicities spoken in SA)? Well this is (generally) among the colonial descendents / white immigrant descendents. There's a VERY big difference between English SAE accent (some say it sounds more posh) and Afrikaans SAE accent (much thicker/stronger accent). There are then slight regional differences - thus the Cape English SAE accent is slightly different to the Natal English SAE accent. Um, urban/rural, maybe after generations - my cousins were farmers and didn't really sound any different, and you may find that high socio-economic correlates with a posher accent, but it's not a hard and fast rule. |
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Jun 20 |
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Who is Greek president vs Who is THE Greek President or if there were a comma after Greek - like "who (here) is Greek, President?" - asking the President who is Greek :) |
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Jun 19 |
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Who is Greek president vs Who is THE Greek President Ah well explained. That was my feeling that there was a structure that permitted this. The website has a facebook group dedicated to picking up its many, many, MANY spelling and grammatical issues, and I was going to post in there and didn't want to look foolish ;) |
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Jun 12 |
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Etymology of “eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious” - is it really a synonym for “good”? you're kidding? There are certainly professional etymologists - Allen Walker Read for example (thefictiondesk.com/blog/ok-or-okay). (Aside: "viral" has a very different meaning to "virus" on the internet. I was specific.) |
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Jun 12 |
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Etymology of “eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious” - is it really a synonym for “good”? I guess I'm after the etymology really to validate it. I'll rephrase the question. |
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Nov 22 |
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Capitalization: when does a phrase become a proper noun? I feel it's only right to link to an appropriate and related question: travel.stackexchange.com/questions/2589/… ;) |
