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| bio | website | gregcons.com/kateblog |
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| location | Ontario, Canada | |
| age | 52 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 3 months |
| seen | 22 hours ago | |
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Consultant, developer, mentor, author, speaker. C++ and .NET, Windows 7, Sharepoint, whatever else I like.
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Sep 25 |
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Pronouncing x in the name of a CD product added 1 characters in body; edited title |
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Sep 25 |
answered | Pronouncing x in the name of a CD product |
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Sep 25 |
awarded | Excavator |
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Sep 25 |
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How long does it take to mull something over? deleted 1 characters in body |
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Sep 25 |
answered | How to say “I'm calling to touch base” without using the idiom? |
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Sep 23 |
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What will be the opposite of “teetotalers”? It's hardcore, not punk, but your point is taken |
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Sep 23 |
answered | What will be the opposite of “teetotalers”? |
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Sep 21 |
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What is the opposite of “upsell”? @Kris, no, both upsell and downsell are things sales reps do to get customers to buy more/less items or bigger/smaller items. "him" in the quote is the customer who they persuade to buy less. He perhaps downbuys, but he doesn't downsell |
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Sep 21 |
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What is the opposite of “upsell”? sure it is. They're trying to get the customer to buy a cheaper product |
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Sep 20 |
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My family vs. my family I would either use a time marker (when I was growing up, my family...) or refer to the people (my parents and siblings) if I thought "my family" was ambiguous, which it often is. |
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Sep 19 |
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My family vs. my family Redundant adjectives can imply they are no longer true - consider "my first husband" when you're still married to him - and whenever I hear "family of origin" it always has a connotation of "who I no longer consider to be my true family because I have a way better one now" |
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Sep 17 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Sep 17 |
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What does “It's not me, it's you?” mean in the phrase, “So why are more of us telling our banks, “It's not me, it's you?” added 166 characters in body |
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Sep 17 |
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What does “It's not me, it's you?” mean in the phrase, “So why are more of us telling our banks, “It's not me, it's you?” edited tags |
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Sep 17 |
answered | What does “It's not me, it's you?” mean in the phrase, “So why are more of us telling our banks, “It's not me, it's you?” |
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Sep 12 |
awarded | Necromancer |
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Sep 10 |
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Term for easing up sails in a heavy storm added 12 characters in body |
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Sep 8 |
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“Are you sure sure” — is this repetition grammatically correct? made link be a link, changed example |
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Sep 5 |
answered | “Do a shop” for “go shopping” |
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Aug 30 |
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Where did the “trick” in the phrase “turning tricks” come from? That's just how Latin makes feminine nouns from verbs - eg dominatrix. The Latin for "cupcake baker" or "kitten rescuer" would end -trix if it referred to a woman. |
