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| bio | website | web.pas.rochester.edu/~tobin |
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| location | Livingston, LA | |
| age | 33 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 6 months |
| seen | Apr 19 at 14:00 | |
| stats | profile views | 1 |
Graduate student in Physics
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Jan 24 |
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Is “setup” an acceptable noun in formal writing? How does this question not fall under "English usage"? |
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Jan 24 |
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Is “setup” an acceptable noun in formal writing? Yes; its use with this meaning is clearly described in some dictionaries. But a dictionary is not a style guide. If the noun setup is a computer-age neologism, I'd prefer to not use it. For example, the Google N-grams viewer shows use of the word setup taking off around 1980, at the time of the introduction of the personal computer. |
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Jan 24 |
asked | Is “setup” an acceptable noun in formal writing? |
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Jun 2 |
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How to describe someone who speaks a language “as if it is his mother tongue” in a CV? A "native" English speaker would know to not use the word "native" unless you learned English from birth. |
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Feb 28 |
answered | How should one address a police officer in the US? |
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Feb 23 |
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Is “penultimate” commonly used? Reminds me of "inflammable". |
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Feb 4 |
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Why are Greek letters pronounced incorrectly in scientific English? As a practical matter, of course, it is helpful that the adopted pronunciations are so distinct from the names of Roman letters in English. It's bad enough to have written p, P, and ρ all on the blackboard at the same time--I'm glad we don't pronounce π and p the same way! |
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Feb 4 |
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