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| bio | website | seamusbradley.net |
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| location | Munich, Germany | |
| age | 27 | |
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I am a postdoc in philosophy.
I contribute to a blog for philosophers who use LaTeX. If you fall in to that niche, check it out: PhilTeX. (The blog will be of use to all kind of humanities scholars using LaTeX, I imagine, but it was started by, and is run by philosophers...) The blog is currently defunct, but may be resurrected soon.
I made this beamer colour change package that slowly changes the colour of structure elements of beamer presentations. Feedback welcome.
I also made this moreenum package which adds new enumeration options.
The TeX goodies page of my website includes some other bits and bobs I've done.
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Dec 7 |
accepted | If I help “evacuate” a building, what am I doing to the people? |
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Dec 7 |
accepted | How does a word come to have two completely opposite meanings? |
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Dec 7 |
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Why did “insofar” become a word, not “insofaras”? Well sure, but "in" "so" and "far" are words that are used in other contexts too. The point is that the majority or uses of "insofar" are "insofar as" uses. |
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Dec 7 |
asked | Why did “insofar” become a word, not “insofaras”? |
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Sep 18 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Aug 30 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Aug 9 |
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If I help “evacuate” a building, what am I doing to the people? @FumbleFingers My comment about wanting a synoynm to avoid confusion is still justified. Historical usage of words is hardly irrelevant since that is, in large part, the determinant of current usage. In this case, it's true that modern usage has changed, but to claim that historical usage is irrelevant seems overkill. |
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Aug 9 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Aug 9 |
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If I help “evacuate” a building, what am I doing to the people? @PLL You're right. Serves me right for not carefully reading all the definitions. |
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Aug 9 |
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If I help “evacuate” a building, what am I doing to the people? I had a quick look in Strunk & White, but it wasn't in the index so I gave up... |
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Aug 8 |
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If I help “evacuate” a building, what am I doing to the people? @FumbleFingers I don't think there's as much agreement as all that. First, the OED online doesn't make it clear it can be used like that, second there was this thing I vaguely remember reading complaining about exactly that usage. Let's say I wanted a synoynm because I was worried about the ambiguity. I might also be worried about the ambiguity of movement but that's another question. Does its being an odd request make it an invalid question? (Someone who downvoted obviously thought so). |
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Aug 8 |
answered | What do you call the process immediately after peeing? |
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Aug 8 |
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If I help “evacuate” a building, what am I doing to the people? @z7sg That depends on your sources. Also I don't think one "should" counts as "I keep saying should"... Read it as "What should she have said..." (if she was interested in making clear she was referring to the evacuation of a building, not to her most recent bowel movement. Both of which Horatio might have helped with. |
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Aug 8 |
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If I help “evacuate” a building, what am I doing to the people? made it less prescriptive sounding. |
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Aug 8 |
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If I help “evacuate” a building, what am I doing to the people? Horatio did none of these things to the poor woman in the question. Well, maybe he helped her withdraw, but that seems a stretch... None has the connotation of evacuate. |
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Aug 8 |
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If I help “evacuate” a building, what am I doing to the people? @z7sg I'm looking for synonyms of one meaning of evacuate, I guess. I don't want synonyms of evacuate as in "I helped evacuate the building". I'm dreadfully sorry that I tried to do more than just post "I CAN HAZ SYNONYM". Whether or not it's correct usage, there is some ambiguity (in fairly rarified circumstances, granted). So I don't think it's "peeving" |
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Aug 8 |
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If I help “evacuate” a building, what am I doing to the people? See edit: let's say I don't want to use evacuate. |
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Aug 8 |
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If I help “evacuate” a building, what am I doing to the people? I've added some more specifics. |
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Aug 8 |
asked | If I help “evacuate” a building, what am I doing to the people? |
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Jun 20 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
