Peter Eisentraut

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PostgreSQL and Debian hacker, DBA at MeetMe

	1,973 reputation	bio	website	petereisentraut.blogspot.com	visits	member for	2 years, 9 months
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Oct 11	answered	Can “prior” or “previous” be used to describe the same month of last year?
Oct 8	comment	“At the beginning of the century” or “in the beginning of the century”? Maybe "point" instead of "spot" is better here.
Oct 8	comment	Difference between “Lots of” and “A lot of” I agree they are essentially the same. I think "lots of" might sometimes be considered slightly less formal, but then again, the American Heritage Dictionary considers both forms informal.
Oct 8	answered	“At the beginning of the century” or “in the beginning of the century”?
Oct 6	comment	Descriptivism and widespread misspelling @mmyers: Well, clearly, the Americans started out with "learnt" as well, and then "learned" arose later as an initially nonstandard form.
Oct 6	answered	Descriptivism and widespread misspelling
Oct 6	comment	Is the word “data” now considered singular, or still plural? About "the data suggest" vs. "the data suggests": Could this be a British vs. American thing, like "the police suggest" vs. "the police suggests"?
Oct 6	comment	Is the word “data” now considered singular, or still plural? "Life of its own" describes it quite well. Such developments happen on occasion. Compare "people".
Oct 2	answered	Usage of “shall we?”
Oct 1	comment	What are: province, territory, protectorate, state…? @user680 They are political or administrative subdivisions below the country level. Their origins, powers, and roles are all wildly different. Analyzing that is a bit off-topic here.
Oct 1	answered	What are: province, territory, protectorate, state…?
Sep 30	comment	Can “doubt” sometimes mean “question”? Yes, but the question is about "doubt" as a synonym for "question", which is not quite the same.
Sep 30	comment	Can “doubt” sometimes mean “question”? I think the point of the question is not that this usage is technically invalid, but that it is very uncommon among native speakers but is somehow consistently used by many nonnative speakers.
Sep 29	comment	Is it appropriate to use short form of “have” ('ve) when it means possession? @configurator: It might actually be more of a written thing. Newspapers and such use it quite a bit. In speech, when you talk about what you have, you probably often use a bit of emphasis somewhere, so the contraction doesn't come into play very clearly.
Sep 20	asked	“Tourists” for visiting sports team
Sep 7	answered	Person, Persons, People, Peoples
Sep 7	comment	“Good bye”, “Bye”, “Bye bye” @Kosmonaut: Point taken, but note that I said "sometimes nearly meaningless", not "meaningless".
Sep 7	answered	Response to “God Bless” when parting company
Sep 7	comment	“Good bye”, “Bye”, “Bye bye” @Kosmonaut: It is said so often that it carries no actual significance. Someone saying "bye" doesn't wish you better or worse than someone saying nothing at all. It is just a convenient and polite way to terminate a conversation; it is more of a protocol element than message content.
Sep 6	answered	“Good bye”, “Bye”, “Bye bye”