Dan Neely

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Jun 12	comment	Is there a better way to write 'do-it-yourselfer'? I suppose American and British vs Canadian makes an interesting change from the standard American vs British comment threads...
Jun 12	comment	Is there a better way to write 'do-it-yourselfer'? I'm saying I'd normally only use it to describe people who're hiring out; not someone who just does his own stuff at home and occasionally helps a friend for a few beers.
Jun 12	comment	Is there a better way to write 'do-it-yourselfer'? I'd normally use Handyman to refer to the person you hire to do small jobs because you're not a DIYer.
Apr 11	comment	Is the construction, “He is a great player, is Tendulkar” grammatical? @BarrieEngland I'm not sure I understand what you're asking, but I found all of the tail examples in your answer (linked to in the question comments) jarring to the point that in isolation my first reaction would probably be "bad translation?"; while they seemed a bit odd I didn't a strong negative reaction to the inversion examples I saw when looking the term up in Wikipedia.
Apr 11	comment	Is the construction, “He is a great player, is Tendulkar” grammatical? Is that construct a UK thing? I don't recall ever hearing it in the US.
Mar 18	comment	What do you call a disease with an unknown cure? @rhetorician not all incurable diseases can/will kill you.
Mar 15	comment	“The more chickens in a farm the more crap and the fewer eggs” @xr09 Gendered terms are hen/pullet for a female, and rooster/cock for the male. The latter usage of cock is relatively uncommon.
Feb 25	comment	Meaning of “cry creek” and “cock of the game” 16th century English is different enough in terms of idioms, etc that it becomes somewhat difficult for colloquial modern English speakers, so there's no need to apologize when asking about it. 17th century English is also bit challenging; following the main plotline in Shakespeare isn't that hard but you'll probably miss most of the low humor he included without an annotated copy. In the other direction, by the time you get to 14th century English (ex Chaucer) an annotated (or translated) copy of the text is virtually obligatory because it's edging into a different language entirely.
Feb 2	comment	Does the quirky spelling in English actually make it easier to read? For a somewhat longer version of Twain's idea, take a look at Dolton Edwards story Meihem in ce Klasrum english-zone.com/index.php?page=1114
Jan 31	awarded	Informed
Jan 31	comment	Why are there so few English words that begin with the letter X? @DominicCronin I use both too; but not when talking to a kid at the age alphabet books are written for.
Jan 18	comment	Word or phrase for 'a much hyped discovery which later turns out to be insignificant or of no value' @tchrist That may be the origin of SouthpawHare's phrase; but they don't mean the same thing. His means "not everything that looks valuable is valuable", yours means "not everything that is valuable looks valuable".
Jan 18	comment	Word or phrase for 'a much hyped discovery which later turns out to be insignificant or of no value' Is this a Briticism? I don't think I've ever heard that phrase in the US, "wet Firecracker" is what I'd expect to hear instead.
Jan 16	comment	“To shoot out of cannon into sparrows” I don't think I've ever heard the sledge hammer-nut one (and as I kid, did use a baby sledge on hickory nuts occasionally). Instead I'd use "using a sledgehammer to crack an egg", or "nuclear fly swatter" depending on how hyperbolic I wanted to be.
Dec 10	comment	Is “No offense meant (taken)” well-accepted English expression? Agreed on using it cautiously; it often seems to be used as if it were a get out of jail free card when someone is being deliberately offensive.
Dec 3	awarded	Critic
Dec 3	comment	What do you call a computer window when it is not maximized or minimized? @coleopterist I've always seen floating window used to refer to always on top windows or to the Ui style where instead of a single container window with docking of some sort each set of UI features is spawned off into an separate window.
Dec 3	comment	What do you call a computer window when it is not maximized or minimized? Anyone who thinks Restored should be the only option clearly hasn't done any significant programming outside of the MS world as demonstrated by the answers showing Java and GNOME do use different terms for the state.
Nov 30	awarded	Yearling
Nov 27	comment	A short term for something like “satisfaction + frustration” I don't think there is a single word that fits both of your examples well. Underwhelming goes with the first (not as good as expected), and bittersweet is good for the second (having good and bad parts). Neither is a good choice for the other condition.