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Pythonista; Celerista; Pyramista; Plonista; Magentoasta; Javascriptista; CSSista; HTMLista; Webista; Shellista; you get the gista.

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Feb 26	comment	What's the opposite of “omniscient”? @Pacerier you just equated being not omniscient with being the opposite of omniscient. That's ignorant!
Feb 25	comment	Etymology of “half-assed” @MrLister {{citation_needed}}
Feb 20	comment	Adjective that means “disableable”? @Candide You want a disabler disabler? How meta!
Feb 4	comment	What do you call a poem or song that sets up a rhyme and then ignores it? @mplungjan I think the Shrek example is a little different. You're supposed to expect a specific word, not just the rhyme. The rhyme is a tool to misdirect the audience to precisely that word. Maybe it's a matter of degrees, but I see it as a different end product.
Jan 25	comment	Is it “peek”, “peak” or “pique”? +1 because you cover the common turn of phrase, and then go on to make a point about a possible pun that is reasonable and grammatically correct. @SteveMelnikoff's link to m-w shows that to peak can be used transitively for the very meaning in question here.
Jan 16	comment	“To shoot out of cannon into sparrows” I had heard it as Don't bring a knife to a gunfight, but that particular phrase suffers from a lack of just. Nothing wrong with having a knife at a gunfight, as long as you have a gun, too. Also, as anyone who has been in close-quarters combat will tell you, having just a gun at a knife fight is not overkill, it is ineffective.
Oct 12	comment	What is the opposite of organic (food)? @AndrewLeach no specific context, but pure curiosity.
Oct 12	comment	What is the opposite of organic (food)? @Kris I don't understand why such a term precludes the existence of its antonym; even so, though, if your point is about the definition of antonym, can you come up with a word that describes the relative complement of organic food in food (set theory)?
Oct 8	comment	“Glaringly obvious” vs. “blaringly obvious” @J.R. I'm not really averse to the value judgement, but to be fair the question is not which is better?, but which came first?
Oct 8	comment	“Glaringly obvious” vs. “blaringly obvious” +1 for the careful thinking on the subject.
Oct 8	comment	“Glaringly obvious” vs. “blaringly obvious” If you're going to make value judgements about it, then why don't we drop all the two-word phrases and just go for pithy alternatives like obvious and blatant? :)
Oct 8	comment	“Glaringly obvious” vs. “blaringly obvious” And yet blatant is just another word that has obvious in its definition – not that that rules anything out, but it makes me sad for the creativity of the human race.
Oct 8	comment	“Glaringly obvious” vs. “blaringly obvious” That a thing glares at you is only one definition of glaring. Is there documented etymology to suggest that the other definitions of glaring stem from this? Also, the word blaring comes from the Middle English bleren, and is not a combination of glaring and blinding.
Oct 8	comment	“Glaringly obvious” vs. “blaringly obvious” Evidence, or just a general sense?
Oct 8	comment	“Glaringly obvious” vs. “blaringly obvious” @tchrist I wish I had known the word eggcorn five minutes ago. Anyway, the question could be phrased, which is the eggcorn and which the original, I suppose.
Sep 24	comment	What is the context of Mark Twain's “If you don't like the weather…” quote? …and speaking of lacking context, why the downvote?
Aug 10	comment	Term for “Death by Lack of Water” But the verb forms of dehydration and even thirst aren't as useful as that of starvation. He starved to death is perfect English. He dehydrated/thirsted to death sounds odd.
Mar 20	comment	What word means “the ability to read more than one form of writing”? Well, what I was looking for is a general term. If I know someone can read and write in two languages, but I don't know what those languages are, I don't see how I can use this expression.
Jan 6	comment	What does “tell us know what you think” mean? When I search it verbatim now, this page is the second rank.
Jan 4	comment	Why “Speak of the devil”? @nitech of course, the devil, a.k.a. Lucifer a.k.a. Morning Star is the fallen angel of light, so shining might be an attribute associated with him, too. And so it comes full circle.