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Apr 11	answered	“My job is not to worry about those people” — what does “not” refer to?
Apr 11	comment	“My job is not to worry about those people” — what does “not” refer to? The second one is how I read it. Job as "task" not "An economic role for which a person is paid": en.wiktionary.org/wiki/job#Noun.
Apr 7	comment	English word for the comma between three digits @AdamMatan There's a thin space unicode character. But you shouldn't be parsing strings to integers when you have already got the integer.
Apr 4	comment	How to say removing redundancy and/or duplicate entries from a list of items? @tchrist I appears I'm wrong about un- and de- :english.stackexchange.com/questions/25941/…
Apr 4	comment	How to say removing redundancy and/or duplicate entries from a list of items? @tchrist I would speculate that this is because the data haven't been actively duplicated, rather there just happen to be duplicates. There is no act of duplication to reverse as an un- prefix would imply, perhaps.
Apr 4	answered	How to say removing redundancy and/or duplicate entries from a list of items?
Apr 3	answered	Is there a single word for “Making a mistake just to make a point”
Mar 31	comment	Is there a technical term for when verbs in a sentence appear as if they have been swapped around? Deliberately misusing words is a form of catachresis, but I don't think that captures the idea of swapping ringed and creased from their more natural contexts.
Mar 30	comment	Racial connotations of the word “uppity” @BenLee I said commentary not context. Whether "contemporary notions of social equality" are absurd or not is irrelevant to the question at hand.
Mar 29	comment	Is there an English equivalent for the Swedish expression “the droplet that caused the beaker to overflow”? You might also say: "it was the final straw".
Mar 24	comment	Racial connotations of the word “uppity” @TimLymington: Yes, it's a good question and I appreciate your distinction between offensive language and language people could be offended by.
Mar 24	comment	Racial connotations of the word “uppity” @StoneyB I think that MετάEd's main contention was that the answer went off-topic and strayed on to broader social commentary.
Mar 24	comment	Racial connotations of the word “uppity” I know you are asking this question in order not to cause offence, but perhaps one should avoid using racially offensive language in all contexts, not just around black people?
Mar 23	comment	What connotation does “to fork one's repo” have? @tchrist: Wikipedia agrees with you.
Mar 17	comment	Russian: nationality and ethnic groups @tchrist: Dude, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature.
Mar 17	comment	Is “monkey around” offensive? @EdwinAshworth: Tinker can refer to people of the Irish Traveler ethnic group.
Mar 16	answered	Russian: nationality and ethnic groups
Mar 16	answered	What is an idiom/slang for “someone who pretends to be good when they're not”?
Mar 15	comment	Is “get one’s pants off” a popular idiom or an eyebrows-raising slang? It should be noted that in British English pants refer to underwear not the outer garments.
Mar 15	answered	What is the longest English word that starts and ends with the same letter?