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| bio | website | hackcraft.net |
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| location | Dublin, Ireland | |
| age | 37 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 5 months |
| seen | May 8 at 13:38 | |
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When not programming I spend much of my free time avoiding the task of writing bios.
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May 8 |
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Conventions for dates spoken without year @tchrist May 1 is or has been Labor Day in some places, including the US; after all the whole point of having a day called "Labor Day" in September is to help discourage commemorations of the Haymarket Martyrs. If nobody celebrated Labor Day in the US on the first of May, there'd have been no need to undermine it. |
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Apr 22 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Apr 4 |
answered | “Lucid intervals” usage? |
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Apr 4 |
answered | Conventions for dates spoken without year |
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Apr 4 |
answered | Including units of a measure in a range |
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Mar 12 |
awarded | Necromancer |
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Mar 11 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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Mar 11 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Feb 27 |
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Archetype in which a person sees he had the objective with him all along But how does it answer the question? |
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Feb 26 |
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Is “else” in “someone else” necessary? @TRiG I met her in a bookshop at precisely the time that it was the best-seller in Ireland, so I said "I shall resist the obvious question". |
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Feb 24 |
reviewed | Looks Good Why are “put” and “but” different in their pronunciation? |
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Feb 24 |
reviewed | Leave Open Why are “put” and “but” different in their pronunciation? |
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Feb 24 |
reviewed | Close Is there a difference between 'eventually' and 'in the future'? |
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Feb 24 |
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Why are “put” and “but” different in their pronunciation? @tchrist It has an actual possible answer in terms of the foot-strut split, so it's definitely a real question that is constructive (though I don't think a lack of answer necessarily demonstrates a flaw with a question). It applies to many other words, so it's definitely not too localised. Maybe "general reference" because one can just look up "foot-strut split", but I don't see how one would necessarily know to do so. |
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Feb 24 |
awarded | word-choice |
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Feb 24 |
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Why are “put” and “but” different in their pronunciation? @tchrist yeah, but these words did have the same vowel. Now they don't. I did mention the more general fact that we've had a lot going on to prevent us having a one-to-one mapping at the start of the question, though I could write many pages on it and I'd be the first to admit that I only know a small percentage of the known cases. |
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Feb 24 |
answered | Is there a name for the words used after dialogue? |
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Feb 24 |
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Is there a difference between 'eventually' and 'in the future'? @KristinaLopez Yes. In speech we don't get to hit an edit button and trim out things like that. |
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Feb 24 |
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Why are “put” and “but” different in their pronunciation? But the earliest origins of language happened at the time of the earliest origins of language. They wouldn't affect a vowel shift that happened later (so we'd have the same sound or a different spelling), and they would affect all accents. I don't understand how putung is related to Old French poulser, nor how it's ou sound could affect the u in a completely different word, especialy since Old French had died out by that time. While some of this answer makes sense in terms of spelling inconsistency generally, I don't think any of it makes any sense for put and but. |
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Feb 24 |
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“New” is to “novelty” as “archaic” is to…? +1, though I'd add that some senses of novelty correspond more with antique than antiquity. |
