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| bio | website | perl.com |
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| location | Boulder, CO | |
| age | 50 | |
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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 10 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on “it's all in the wrist” |
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May 10 |
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Migratory or migration? deleted 4 characters in body |
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May 10 |
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Migratory or migration? I think this whole matter of “an X used as a Y”, where X and Y are classical part-of-speech tags like noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, ends up being a very confusing thing to ESL students — and perhaps to others as well. They get hung up on thinking that words in isolation are somehow this or that, like the OP’s assumption that migratory is an adjective and migration a noun, whereas it is more fruitful to look at what role words are taking on in a larger grammatical structure. Without that, they really aren’t anything: the structure is all that matters. |
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May 10 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Migratory or migration? |
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May 10 |
reviewed | Leave Closed What is a term for finding a result? |
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May 10 |
reviewed | Leave Open Why is it ‘A God,’ not ‘God' in Mark Sanford’s “I want to acknowledge a God not just of second chances, but third, fourth, eighth chances”? |
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May 10 |
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Difference between “jargon” and “technical terms” Not to mention cant and patois. |
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May 10 |
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“That” vs “It” as Anaphoric Determiners deleted 12 characters in body |
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May 10 |
reviewed | Looks Good What is the word for “showing that something is meaningful”? |
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May 10 |
reviewed | Close What does “put the top down” mean? |
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May 10 |
reviewed | Leave Open Word for the person who has a favorite |
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May 10 |
answered | “That” vs “It” as Anaphoric Determiners |
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May 8 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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May 8 |
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The ( changed ) meaning or classification of words in programming You spell check your code so you don’t look like an unprofessional idiot. Stop lists for variable names are a completely different matter. |
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May 8 |
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The ( changed ) meaning or classification of words in programming This is a mistake. You should certainly spellcheck your code. Othrewies yor cmments lkko lkie txtspk. |
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May 8 |
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The ( changed ) meaning or classification of words in programming @horatio Of course you should use a spellchecker on source code! How else will you know if you screwed up the domucentation in the commments? |
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May 8 |
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Is “Michael here” correct? I don’t know why you think all utterances must have a verb in them. |
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May 8 |
reviewed | Leave Open Does the verb “warn” sound very strong? |
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May 8 |
reviewed | Leave Open Can “pussy” be pronounced with /ʌ/ (uh)? |
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May 8 |
reviewed | Close How did “replace” come to mean “put something in the place of”? |
