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Jan 4	comment	How do you properly follow a subjunctive with a related statement? Any way you slice it, "originally" is confusing. If I really meant it in the sense described in this answer, I probably should've written "…even if the story were true in any form…" or some such. But that's a different english.stackexchange.com question.
Jan 4	comment	How do you properly follow a subjunctive with a related statement? Seems folks are interested in the context. You'll see why I avoided it at first. There's this tale of a professor who taught his class about socialism by failing them that has been appearing on my Facebook stream. The particular edition that I've gotten twice now has explicitly stated that the socialism in question is "Obama's socialism". I looked the story up and found out that it's unlikely this story started the rounds while Obama was PoTUS.
Jan 4	comment	How do you properly follow a subjunctive with a related statement? +1. I have to like this answer because it solidly defends my originally improper use of "originally".
Jan 4	comment	How do you properly follow a subjunctive with a related statement? Thank you for letting my use of originally pass. I think I meant to say actually.
Dec 27	comment	Is the sentence “We're done” grammatically correct? We've done is the indicative past perfect of We do. Used in this way it must be transitive, so you can say, We've done it!, which indicates you achieved something more extraordinary than making it all the way through a single lecture. Anyway, We did it! is more common than We've done it!. Save it for when you graduate.
Dec 9	comment	Alternative term to “Blacklist” and “Whitelist” I agree! I think it darkens the language when people try to discolor it with their hue-bris.
Dec 6	comment	“How are you” in America When folks say I'm fine I assume they're commenting on how sexy they are.
Dec 6	comment	What do you call a disk drive that is not solid state? @JamesRyan besides electricity.
Dec 6	comment	What do you call a disk drive that is not solid state? @Zoredache I would've liked to mark your comment as the correct answer. It is succinct, technically correct, and clear enough that anyone with whom I might end up needing to make the distinction between a solid-state drive and a Winchester drive would either already know it, or chuckle and immediately look it up.
Dec 6	comment	How to say “She/He is my girlfriend/boyfriend” without the possessive “my” The cat that is of me finds this all very confusing.
Nov 30	comment	What do you call a disk drive that is not solid state? I'm still surprised. I could see how a solid-state drive needn't have a disk, but it is just as, if not more, deserving of the term hard as its moving-parts cousin. Do you have a reference?
Nov 30	comment	What do you call a disk drive that is not solid state? Are you suggesting that a hard disk drive is never solid-state? I'm surprised. Is it the word drive that makes it not solid-state?
Nov 24	comment	term for “finding correct solution by excluding wrong solutions” By the way, the style of game where the winner is chosen by eliminating all the other players is called "last man standing". Thought you might find that a useful, related phrase.
Nov 23	comment	Can you grammatically end a sentence with “with”? Quotation attributions on the Internet are notoriously hard to track down. (Lincoln)
Nov 18	comment	What do you call second-party quotes within a quote? When a radio announcer reads a quote it's hard to tell if it's a direct quote or a paraphrase. The way this particular newscaster read it, I was pretty sure it was a quote-within-a-quote.
Nov 16	comment	A word for the feeling of falling You may also experience this feeling right before falling asleep, as part of hypnagogia. I wonder if the falling sensation is why they call it "falling" asleep.
Oct 25	comment	Can one answer “Have you got…?” with “Yes, I've got.”? There are lots of grammatically and colloquially valid responses, but I'd guess the most likely response is a mumble along the lines of "sure" followed by some rummaging through a bag.
Oct 25	comment	Polite synonyms for “a——hole-ish” behavior God forgive me, but now I'm curious what blashphemy would convey the meaning of asshole-ish behavior.
Jun 19	comment	Is it correct to ask “what's your father?” when you actually mean to ask about his job? Since this is the English language site, I feel obliged to point out that "grammar" is misspelled above. Unfortunately, StackExchange won't let me make such a terse correction, so I have to make a bigger deal out of it by commenting. :/
May 28	comment	What does “bring fire to the natives” mean? Got any references? Also please don't make the its versus it's mistake on english.stackexchange.com. It's too ironic. ;-)