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I’m Tom Christiansen, author of Programming Perl and Perl Cookbook from O’Reilly. I’m a freelance instructor giving courses in Perl programming, including Unicode and regular expressions. I’ve been using BSD Unix for 30 years now; like your maid, I don’t do Windows.

I’ve undergraduate degrees in Spanish and in Computer Science, and a graduate degree in compsci focusing on operating systems design and in natural language processing. I’ve studied Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Latin, and German, with a smattering of other languages thrown in. For the last few years I’ve been dabbling in computational linguistics.

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May 15	comment	use of phrasal verb “reach out” meaning to contact someone Using “to reach out to someone” to mean nothing more than contacting them is trendy business jargon. It regularly makes all the top-ten lists of *the* most annoying trendy lingo found everywhere in Big Self-Important Companies today, including the notorious Forbes list of the same.
May 15	revised	use of phrasal verb “reach out” meaning to contact someone edited tags
May 15	revised	Dare + have done added ngrams
May 15	revised	Dare + have done added 1853 characters in body
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May 15	answered	Dare + have done
May 15	revised	When to capitalize fixed more broken English
May 14	comment	How does the comma change the meaning in these statements? What’s your theory?
May 14	comment	Homographic pair of two verbs or pair of two nouns? @FumbleFingers Lots of same-POS examples out there: adder, arms, ash, bases, bail, bale, ball, band, bar, bark, bay, bill, bob, bong, boom, brake, brat, brock, buck, bud, bull, bum for nouns alone, and even those only through b and with many omitted. The possible list goes on and on and on and on.
May 14	comment	Can I use the “ll” contraction with proper names? Written? Spoken? Reported dialogue?
May 14	comment	Homographic pair of two verbs or pair of two nouns? There are almost impossibly many possible answers to this, which is why we list questions are considered offtopic on all StackExchange sites.
May 14	reviewed	Close Meaning of “I'm a disaster”
May 14	comment	Difference between: Also, too and as well “How much of that information is true?” is not a very good question. It needs to be more concrete. You also have other problems as well, such as a confusingly unidiomatic use of “so much” (whose meaning I cannot quite unravel) — and a comma-splice, too.
May 14	reviewed	Reject suggested edit on *Is there a clean version of “no sht, Sherlock”?**
May 14	comment	How should “often” be pronounced? @JSBձոգչ There’s actually a rule about -t- suppression in compounds here, but I can’t find it right now. In the meantime, The Ballad of Shameless Enjambment addresses this very issue. :)