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| bio | website | basetable.wordpress.com |
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| location | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | |
| age | 24 | |
| visits | member for | 6 months |
| seen | May 13 at 13:41 | |
| stats | profile views | 12 |
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. - Daniel J Boorstin
On my day job I maintain a large database application for a growing Edinburgh-based travel search company. Every day I learn more about development and administration in the trenches, including how to cope with legacy worst practices and how to benefit from SQL Server best practices.
Studying part-time at Dundee University for an MSc in Business Intelligence.
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Mar 20 |
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Feb 18 |
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What's that word meaning 'thus more strongly for X'? OP did ask for a Latin phrase, but it sounds like something only a lawyer or someone who learned Latin would ever think to say. The other answers sound more natural in everyday speech. |
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Nov 8 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Nov 8 |
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Nov 8 |
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What's wrong with “I'll open you the door”? @Thomas Spanish is her native language. There are more than 10,000 Spanish people in my hometown of Edinburgh (pop. 500,000). You hear Spanglish on the street every day. |
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Nov 8 |
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Nov 8 |
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What's wrong with “I'll open you the door”? @Annan "You make a better door than a window!" my gran would say if you blocked her view of the TV. |
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Nov 7 |
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Nov 7 |
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Nov 7 |
accepted | What's wrong with “I'll open you the door”? |
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Nov 7 |
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What's wrong with “I'll open you the door”? @MattЭллен Thanks for introducing me to ditransitive verbs. It's unclear to me from your answer when a ditransitive verb's indirect object should take a preposition. To buy can be transitive or ditransitive. I think John Lawler's answer nailed it. |
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Nov 7 |
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What's wrong with “I'll open you the door”? Your second example sounds weird because it's a garden-path sentence: party balloon is a type of balloon. But both I bought drinks for my friend and I bought my friend drinks sound fine to me. |
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Nov 7 |
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Nov 7 |
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What's wrong with “I'll open you the door”? Improved formatting |
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Nov 7 |
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Nov 7 |
asked | What's wrong with “I'll open you the door”? |
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Nov 7 |
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“Bury” — noun meaning? @Robusto In Swedish, a close relative of English, a similar thing happens. The cider called Kopparberg almost sounds like 'Kopparbarry' on a Swede's tongue. I live in a city called Edinburgh, which in Scotland we call 'Edinburra'. |
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