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| visits | member for | 2 years, 1 month |
| seen | Oct 15 '12 at 6:23 | |
| stats | profile views | 25 |
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Apr 2 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Apr 24 |
answered | Hard real time in user space with preempt_rt patch |
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Apr 2 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Feb 3 |
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How do the tenses in English correspond temporally to one another? @tchrist: you're right, "if I were" is imperfect (but probably just called "past" in English) and "if I had been" is pluperfect. |
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Jan 24 |
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What do you call that sound uncouth people make by gurgling the snot in their sinuses? @Marthaª: oh, I see! The sound I'm talking about it exactly the one you just described, but is there a word for it? |
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Jan 23 |
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What do you call that sound uncouth people make by gurgling the snot in their sinuses? This is a much better word than the underwhelming "snuffle". It is unfortunate that "snuffle" exists, otherwise we could introduce "snurgle" as a neologism. |
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Jan 23 |
accepted | What do you call that sound uncouth people make by gurgling the snot in their sinuses? |
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Jan 23 |
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What do you call that sound uncouth people make by gurgling the snot in their sinuses? The definition shies away from describing the snot-gurgle which for me is the defining feature of this awful sound, but the reference to crying and a cold suggests that it actually refers to the same thing. It lacks the onomatopoeic value I was hoping for, but it seems this is the word in English. |
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Jan 23 |
asked | What do you call that sound uncouth people make by gurgling the snot in their sinuses? |
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Oct 12 |
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Etymology of “medicine” and its Native American usage I was not suggesting that the term "medicine man" is directly descended from its distant PIE ancestor, or that the people who introduced it were aware of the etymology. Rather, it just happened by chance that this new coinage has a meaning which seems more appropriate in light of the etymology, and this is serendipitous precisely because the people who coined it were probably not aware of those roots. |
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Oct 11 |
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Etymology of “medicine” and its Native American usage @morphail: thanks for the downvote. I don't think you understood what I wrote. |
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Jul 8 |
answered | What does “What price X?” mean? |
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Jul 7 |
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“-ee” and “-er” word endings "Dragee" sounds wrong to me. One, -ee is for people, as Jimi said; two, a person who drags is a "dragger", so one who is dragged would be a "draggee". |
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Jul 7 |
accepted | Subject with multiple verbs |
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Jul 7 |
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Subject with multiple verbs Ah, that must have been the root of the objection. Thank you! I ended up rewriting the sentence like this, for better flow: In both cases, execution is asynchronous: the request is queued up and the caller continues running, while the command or event handler is executed on the same thread (the program’s only) at the next opportunity. |
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Jul 7 |
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“Is key” or “is the key”? BTW, "is the key" sounds closer to "the key solution" to me, while I just want to indicate an important aspect of the problem. Is my feeling right? |
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Jul 7 |
accepted | “Is key” or “is the key”? |
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Jul 7 |
asked | Subject with multiple verbs |
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Jul 7 |
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“Is key” or “is the key”? I meant that it's important, so I guess my initial wording was right. Thanks! |
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Jul 7 |
asked | “Is key” or “is the key”? |
