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| bio | website | gregcons.com/kateblog |
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| location | Ontario, Canada | |
| age | 52 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 4 months |
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Consultant, developer, mentor, author, speaker. C++ and .NET, Windows 7, Sharepoint, whatever else I like.
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May 14 |
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“Oblong to Allantoid” — is it valid? That's the exact same comment you made above, and I can't understand it. Does "red to orange" make sense to you? Neither red nor orange refers to a position. How about "warm to hot" or "tired to exhausted"? You can take any two adjectives X and Y and describe a group of things as being "X to Y" meaning that some are X, some are Y, and some are in between. It's a terse wording, that might not be understood in conversation, but is understood in the context of describing a set of cells and how to know what they are. |
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May 14 |
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“Oblong to Allantoid” — is it valid? added 715 characters in body |
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May 14 |
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“Oblong to Allantoid” — is it valid? added 1 characters in body |
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May 14 |
answered | “Oblong to Allantoid” — is it valid? |
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May 11 |
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Why is the noun form of “permit” “permission”? see english.stackexchange.com/q/95195/3946 |
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May 2 |
answered | How to say hello to a group of people? |
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Apr 29 |
answered | Why are animal names used as vulgar slang for body parts? |
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Apr 29 |
accepted | Does the use of “port” for one side of ship relate to the word “port” meaning harbour? |
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Apr 28 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Apr 25 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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Apr 25 |
awarded | Guru |
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Apr 22 |
answered | Plural or singular when stating that an amount is enough |
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Apr 22 |
asked | Does the use of “port” for one side of ship relate to the word “port” meaning harbour? |
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Apr 22 |
answered | For + verb-ing at the beginning of a sentece |
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Apr 16 |
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Sherlock Holmes has nothing on you Henrique Try using that same Google ability on the phrase in question and you'll see in context it is always people praising the "detective" abilities of the subject. |
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Apr 12 |
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Meaning of “candle” in “I now call to mind that there was a letter in the candle three days ago” Life was full of these mini-predictors once. A tea leaf that floated was a visitor - fish it out and count how many times you have to tap it to move it from one hand to the other to get days until the visit, and so on. I wouldn't expect a book to explain that any more than one written 10 years ago would explain how a fax machine works. |
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Apr 7 |
answered | Whats the meaning of the phrase “Whats not to like”? |
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Apr 6 |
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Responding to “Sorry for the late reply.” statement in the email This fits better on workplace.stackexchange.com because it's not about the words to use, but about whether, in a business context, you should respond to parts of an email or not. You will get better advice on The Workplace. |
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Apr 4 |
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Is “resign with effect from [date]” inclusive? It doesn't much matter if your former employers think you're weird, of course, but this wording would have that effect. Why not say "My last working day will be Apri 15th" rather than trying to use "effective" or "with effect"? |
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Apr 3 |
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Alternative for “pedantic” deleted 40 characters in body |
