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I am a native speaker of American English.

My background is in computer science. I am fueled by coffee and a painful degree of empathy with usability test subjects.

I currently convert technical details to plain language for normal people, and convert normal language to technical details for programmers.

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83 Answers

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38	“Eat” is to “feed” as “drink” is to what?
29	Antonym of verb “holster”
29	English counterpart to Japanese signal word, “Dokkoisho”
26	“The Dude abides” — what does “abide” mean in that context?
25	What does “She was young and blithe, 22 going on 16” mean?

+20	Why use BCE/CE instead of BC/AD?
+10	What's the difference between “requester” and “requestor”?
+10	“Clean as a whistle” — why is a whistle considered appropriate for describing cleanliness?
+10	When did the U.S. President become “Mr. X” instead of “President X”?

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25	What's the difference between “requester” and “requestor”?
11	How did the word “lid” come to mean “poor operator” (in the context of telegraphy and amateur radio)?
7	Can “shop” (related to selling or stores) be used as a transitive verb?
6	How did “tot” come to mean a measure or ration?
5	What's the difference between “good on you” vs. “good for you”, with a sincere meaning something like “you've done a good thing”?