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Volker Siegel
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  • Berlin, Germany
13 votes
7 answers
2k views

Deriving a word for the activity of using a tool from the tool name ("grep")

6 votes
1 answer
14k views

What does "potted history" mean?

6 votes
2 answers
1k views

Why "inspector general", and not "general inspector", like German "Generalinspektor"? [duplicate]

1 vote
1 answer
244 views

Term for "bending in multiple directions at the same time" - "mind bending", actually

0 votes
1 answer
111 views

Is "not remembering" the same as "no longer know"? [closed]

0 votes
3 answers
209 views

Are more than one "ground zero" multiple "ground zeros" or "grounds zero" or "grounds zeros"? [closed]

0 votes
1 answer
658 views

Pronunciation of "Makemake" versus "make"

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2 answers
57 views

In "Some statement. This!", what does the "This!" mean? [closed]

0 votes
0 answers
347 views

Is "it shall be" the same as "it is"? Specific to the context of law?

0 votes
1 answer
36 views

An university lecture and a sequence of university lectures? [closed]

0 votes
2 answers
196 views

Colloquial terms for "[please do X] according to your own ethical assumptions"?

0 votes
1 answer
2k views

Inappropriate meaning of "inappropriate", depending on context

0 votes
1 answer
203 views

Alternative in parenthesis before or after?

0 votes
1 answer
1k views

What is the abbreviation on "ohkay"? [duplicate]

-1 votes
1 answer
6k views

I am your friend. What about you?

-1 votes
3 answers
306 views

Richard Feynman is certainly not mischievous!

-1 votes
5 answers
5k views

Can I write "Kindly let me know openly", finishing a letter?

-1 votes
2 answers
49 views

Difference in connotation between "a statement" vs "a statement to make"

-1 votes
4 answers
2k views

How is the worth of a person an amount of money?