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| location | Ireland | |
| age | 42 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 4 months |
| seen | 5 hours ago | |
| stats | profile views | 26 |
Interaction Designer since 1993, working in a wide range of fields such as air traffic control, financial markets, virtual reality mockups, and latterly, open source desktop applications.
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awarded | Yearling |
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May 8 |
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better word for a “delivery guy” And also here in the UK. |
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Feb 6 |
answered | “Sound” is to “mute” as “visuals” is to what verb? |
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Jan 29 |
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How do you say “hands-on experience” with this technology to an interviewer? @Kris I don't understand how this can be considered an oxymoron, there is nothing particularly contradictory about the two words. But even if it is, "practical experience" is nonetheless a phrase with a specific and well-understood meaning in job-hunting and technical circles. |
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Jan 28 |
awarded | Editor |
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Jan 28 |
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How do you say “hands-on experience” with this technology to an interviewer? added 149 characters in body |
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Jan 28 |
answered | How do you say “hands-on experience” with this technology to an interviewer? |
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Jan 21 |
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What do you call someone who is shy, withdrawn, and fearful of being approached? Since the OP was looking for a noun, worth noting that "introvert" is the noun for someone who is introverted, and that none of the others on the list really have a noun form. |
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Dec 16 |
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in order to [gerund] or [infinitive]? Not only is it not necessary, it sounds rather odd. |
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Nov 11 |
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A verb for performing foot tricks with a ball? Note that to soccer fans at least, "dribbling" is usually done with the ball on the ground at one's feet, and is a basic skill for most professional players. "Juggling" is more of a showing-off activity, and isn't something you'd normally do (or have the chance to do) during a game. |
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Oct 27 |
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How are 'marry', 'merry', and 'Mary' pronounced differently? @TRiG As someone who lives pretty close to Northern Ireland (just over the border in the Republic), I wouldn't say they sound any more similar than in any other UK accent. |
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Oct 21 |
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What is the name of the truck shown in this picture? FWIW, in the UK I've never heard of anything called a transporter other than a car transporter. Pretty much everything else is commonly referred to as a <something> lorry/van/vehicle. |
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Oct 14 |
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What is the name for a person who raises turkeys? In the UK, it's also fairly common to hear "poultry farmer". |
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Sep 1 |
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Compressed vs. zipped The trouble is, of course, that it doesn't really matter which search engine or vacuum cleaner you used -- the end result is the same, so it's generally unimportant whether you hoovered or vacuumed, googled or searched, xeroxed or photocopied. However, the effect of using zip, tar or rar to compress a file is quite different, as are the tools required to reverse the operation. |
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May 9 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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May 9 |
answered | Can “me, too” be used to reply to a negative statement? |
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Mar 27 |
answered | What types of sounds do cars make? |
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Mar 27 |
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Is “used in anger” a Britishism for something? It's also just quite common to use military analogies in sport, hence the use of terms like territorial advantage, attack, defend, shoot, etc., all in an attempt to emerge victorious from the field (of play)... |
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Mar 27 |
answered | “Sleep in the nude” or “sleep nude” |
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Mar 12 |
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Word for parent of a single child? Use of "one-time" in this way is also a rather American idiom, which may or may not matter. |
