Caleb

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You: Do you know Jon Skeet?

Expert: I once tried to convince the community, it worked remarkably well.

You: Do you know Joel Spolsky?

Expert: I know joel spolsky to a certain degree at least.

You: Does he treat you well?

Expert: :)

You: What is it like to work at Stack Exchange?

Expert: The answer is pretty complicated.

You: I'm listening.

Expert: I used to know someone who was listening.

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Jul 19	comment	Is there a different understanding of “rubber” in British and American English? As an American, I haven't heard anyone use "rubber" for "condom" in twenty years. I expect that many Americans would understand it in context, but for most of us I think "condom" is nearly as far down the list of possible definitions of "rubber" as "eraser" would be.
Apr 16	answered	Single word for “humorous in an intellectual way”
Apr 11	awarded	Yearling
Mar 15	comment	Is it acceptable to call a hot dog a sausage? @JR. Fundamentally, there's a conflict between two definitions of the same word. Given Y is X, X sometimes means all X's and other times means some X that's not Y. When the distinction between X and Y is strong enough, people will start objecting if you use X in place of Y. A tomato is technically a kind of fruit, but people will object in some contexts if you call a tomato a fruit instead of a vegetable.
Mar 15	answered	Is it acceptable to call a hot dog a sausage?
Mar 13	comment	Name for words created from mispronunciations? @FumbleFingers That's the only way that I can think of to spell the way it sounds -- essentially the first syllable of casual. I have to admit that I haven't seen it either -- but this process of spoken words being written down and growing into part of the language is what I was thinking about.
Mar 13	comment	Name for words created from mispronunciations? @nohat Thanks, I didn't know that. am not, are not, is not... all forms of to be, or, not to be. ;-)
Mar 13	asked	Name for words created from mispronunciations?
Mar 9	answered	Expression “let's cross that bridge a little further down the road”
Feb 24	answered	What is the correct form of address for a police officer?
Jan 31	awarded	Quorum
Jan 13	comment	Colorful term for someone with a long-overdue library book That's a lot of alliteration.
Jan 12	answered	Colorful term for someone with a long-overdue library book
Nov 19	comment	Should one stick to American style of placing punctuation marks within quotes if one uses the American spelling? @PeterShor Good call, thanks. Updated answer.
Nov 19	revised	Should one stick to American style of placing punctuation marks within quotes if one uses the American spelling? deleted 23 characters in body
Nov 19	answered	Should one stick to American style of placing punctuation marks within quotes if one uses the American spelling?
Nov 4	revised	Is “reblog” a word? added 593 characters in body
Nov 4	answered	Is “reblog” a word?
Oct 30	comment	Is there a synonym for “defenestrate”? @JeffSahol, the physical reality is that defenestration will always be easier and more reliable than the opposite maneuver, but I think we could coin infenestrate, as in: I didn't intend to infenestrate the baseball, but Dad still docked my allowance to pay for the repair.
Oct 28	comment	“Fluctuates widely” or “fluctuates wildly” To beg the question a bit, I don't think widely implies regularity, so if widely can mean large and irregular, how is that different from wildly? Widely could mean "large but in control" and wildly could mean "out of control," but I have a strong suspicion that very few people think in terms of statistical control when they use these terms.