JSBձոգչ

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I have a degree in Linguistics, but I work as a programmer. Most of my expertise about English is self-taught, plus lots of random trivia I've acquired here and there.

This is my favorite EL&U comment ever:

This isn't really a question about English so much as a question about hugs. Source

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Dec 23	awarded	Nice Answer
Dec 21	revised	proneness to + [verb] instead of proneness to + [noun] edited tags
Dec 20	comment	How do you define broke and broke into? Protip: don't use the tag words.
Dec 20	revised	How do you define broke and broke into? edited tags
Dec 20	revised	What is a fund? edited tags
Dec 20	answered	is onomatopoeia itself onomatopoeic?
Dec 20	awarded	Enlightened
Dec 20	revised	Is using the last name of a person without a title an accepted way of addressing? edited tags
Dec 20	awarded	Nice Answer
Dec 20	revised	Word for relative position edited tags
Dec 20	answered	Double negation “does not any”
Dec 20	revised	Double negation “does not any” added 5 characters in body; edited tags
Dec 20	answered	“If you don't do it, I'll”. Why does that sentence feel so awkward?
Dec 20	revised	“If you don't do it, I'll”. Why does that sentence feel so awkward? edited tags
Dec 20	revised	Single word for writing from left to right or the reverse edited tags
Dec 20	comment	Single word for writing from left to right or the reverse Nit: languages are not LTR or RTL, only writing systems are. The same writing system can be used for multiple languages, and the same language can use multiple writing systems.
Dec 20	answered	Single word for writing from left to right or the reverse
Dec 20	reviewed	Leave Open Phrase which describes falsely improving something
Dec 20	revised	Is it normal to use ‘the second’ without a preposition in expressing ‘as soon as” or ‘no later than’? edited tags
Dec 20	revised	“Hence the need to make X” vs. “hence the need for X” edited tags