Andrew Lazarus

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Mathematician, programmer, polymath.

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May 2	answered	Is the phrase “At about the speed of ten miles per hour” correct in the context?
Apr 30	answered	What is “plaice” in the US? Would love a good fish and chips
Apr 24	comment	Meaning of the German “ersatz” in English @Mitch, I think my point was that the meaning of bogus is expanding, not that its popularity is recent.
Apr 22	comment	Meaning of the German “ersatz” in English Bogus is also getting used by a younger American generation with connotations of "wrong" and "unsatisfactory", as well as ersatz. Interestingly, while I never see ersatz italicized any more, that is not true of its opposite echt. Perhaps this is because it's possible to more-or-less pronounce ersatz with Standard English sounds, but not echt.
Apr 22	comment	What does ‘a man with 20/20 vision' mean other than ‘a man with a normal sight? I wonder if this was also an attempt to reference Senator Paul's pre-politics career. He is an ophthamologist.
Apr 11	comment	What is a single word for “Out of our control” External factors is two words.
Apr 10	comment	What is a single word for “Out of our control” @AndrewFindlay: Usually used there, but not exclusively. It also has regular use in anthropology. I don't think it's a science term-of-art. If there were one perfect word, someone would probably have posted it already.
Apr 10	answered	What is a single word for “Out of our control”
Mar 14	comment	Is it “Ministry of Economy” or “Ministry of the Economy”? Wrong is a strong word to use here. Would you settle for inferior?
Mar 14	comment	What's the meaning of “I put the chic in freak”? Well, J.R.'s comment is worth paying attention to. In this case (in contrast to reek), the inserted word of chic has a generally positive connotation. So in this case there's an attempt to alter the overtones of freak. Hope this helps.
Mar 13	answered	Is “great” used by native speakers to describe calamities any more?
Mar 13	answered	Is it “Ministry of Economy” or “Ministry of the Economy”?
Mar 13	answered	What's the meaning of “I put the chic in freak”?
Mar 13	comment	Why do people pronounce “Naomi” as “Niomi”? Although our Israeli friends usually call my Naomi just Nomi, or even Omi, accent first syllable, I believe the first vowel is a kamatz katan, and would have been Naw-‘oh-mee (glottal stop) if we've reconstructed Early Hebrew pronunciation correctly.
Mar 13	comment	Is “We wish to confirm that this amount has been processed and enclosed is a cheque totalling $15,000.00” grammatically correct I've encountered enclosed please find in this context. You can also use enclosed herewith is —herewith is a fairly unusual word since this exact case is its only common use.
Mar 12	comment	1st hour, 2nd hour, 3rd hour… But how to say “zero”-th hour? This was called zeroth hour at my sons' school, which had a similar schedule pattern. Zero hour has connotations of a critical time, or a deadline.
Mar 11	answered	“Would remain” vs. “would have remained”
Mar 6	comment	What exactly is the “schwa” sound? @JohnLawler Not only do American dictionaries not use the schwa (sorry) from the IPA, IIRC, they used a symbol like a perpendicular sign ⟂ over a vowel whose sound degenerates into schwa. And when you think about it, not all schwas sound alike, at least, to me.
Mar 6	comment	Etymology of “ping” Unless you consider pinging your friend's terminal as "personal communication", 0% chance.
Mar 2	comment	Capital 'I' and lowercase 'L' Some typists used capital Eye instead of lower case ell for one. Note year "I9I3" slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/02/05/….