MatthewMartin

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I'm a programmer at my day job and language hobbyist after work. I study foreign languages and organize a linguistics book club in Arlington.

Everyone who answers one of my questions gets an up vote...eventually. I will not down vote an answer on one of my questions, even if I think you are wrong. I thank everyone who has freely given me some of their time to answer my various questions.

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13 Answers

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13	How bad is the f-word, really?
8	What do you call a person who started something that is later followed by everyone?
5	What words are commonly mispronounced by literate people who read them before they heard them?
5	Using Multiple Sentence Stoppers?
5	What is the factual basis for “pirate speech”? (Did pirates really say things like “shiver me timbers”?)

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+88	What do you call a person who started something that is later followed by everyone?
+10	Why does “orange” rhyme with (almost) nothing in English?
+10	Using Multiple Sentence Stoppers?
+5	What manual of style should I use for technical writing for US Federal Government documents?

7 Questions

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31	Why does “orange” rhyme with (almost) nothing in English?
23	Can a word be contracted twice (e.g. “I'ven't”)?
18	Where can I find a reasonably well recognized free style guide that is online?
9	In what ways is Appalachian speech closer to Elizabethan English than contemporary British?
8	What manual of style should I use for technical writing for US Federal Government documents?

30 Tags

13 slang	5 style-manuals × 3
13 offensive-language	5 punctuation × 2
9 grammaticality × 2	5 exclamation-mark
8 dialects × 3	5 question-mark
8 single-word-requests	5 history