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Nov 30	awarded	Yearling
Oct 19	awarded	Popular Question
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Mar 11	revised	What do you call it when some group is feeling self-satisfaction by praising themselves? Improved grammar
Mar 11	comment	a cold vs flu / the flu There is not one flu: influenza is a classification of many sub-types of flu virus - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza#Types_of_virus
Mar 11	suggested	suggested edit on What do you call it when some group is feeling self-satisfaction by praising themselves?
Mar 5	comment	Should I prefer “asker” or “questioner” for a person who asked a question? @MarkBeadles The problem with your ngram plot is that it provides no context. `Questioner`, at least to me, is someone conducting an interrogation, whereas an `asker` would be someone in a lecture hall audience, or someone conducting a survey. However, that's just my idiolect talking...
Mar 5	comment	How to pronounce the programmer's abbreviation “char” I was just thinking this very thing, as one of my very learned colleagues (a fellow database programmer) said "I made that column a car-ten" (for char(10)). I always say [tʃɑ:r] (bilingual native Canadian English speaker.)
Jan 16	comment	Meaning of “native speaker of English” +1 for "it does not necessarily mean that it is the speaker's only language"! One can easily be a native speaker of several languages.
Nov 30	awarded	Yearling
Nov 15	comment	Differences between “tutorial”, “guide” and “how-to” I would add that a great many people misuse "how-to", particularly in discussion forums, using it as an equivalent for "how do I…" which, properly, it is not.
Nov 15	comment	Answering with “Let's!” or “Let's go!” @patrickeatworld I would add that if I do use that expression, I almost never use it in isolation, but rather say "Yes, let's!" (or some equivalent).
Nov 15	comment	Is there a word to describe the situation where you call someone and hang up so they call you back? Many of my business-jargon-using friends will indeed ask me to "ping them", but it has a different meaning (at least when they use it, and its employment is ubiquitous): it means to contact them, suggesting that they will answer.
Nov 15	comment	Is there a word to describe the situation where you call someone and hang up so they call you back? @AndrewVit I suppose so! It has (nearly) the same semantic value.
Nov 14	suggested	suggested edit on Is there a word to describe the situation where you call someone and hang up so they call you back?
Nov 14	comment	Is there a word for telling the truth (technically) in order to misguide? @JohnC, see Sir Humphrey Appleby for excellent examples! ;)
Nov 14	comment	Answering with “Let's!” or “Let's go!” @patrickeatworld I use that expression regularly, though it may be seen as somewhat pompous ;)
Nov 14	answered	Is there a word to describe the situation where you call someone and hang up so they call you back?
Oct 31	comment	Why does the incorrect plural “aircrafts” seem to be occurring more often? +1 for mentioning the European and Pacific air wars — the same thought came immediately to my mind.