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Dan Getz
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Native speaker of American English*, ex-expatriate, and programmer. Interested in languages, but just an amateur, and glad to help when I can.

(* rhotic, no negative concord, pre-nasal /æ/-raising, raised /ai/, not many of the regional AmE mergers)

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Why is, "If I don't use the microphone, nobody will hear me," not considered a double negative
Sep 17, 2020
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What does the slang word "hammered" actually mean?
Jul 6, 2015
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33
Why "clothespin" and not "clothpin"?
Nov 3, 2022
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Why is there no plural 's' after "hundred" or "thousand" in cardinal numbers?
Nov 5, 2014
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Putin's vice like grip -- what does "vice" mean here?
Jun 5, 2015
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Object of the verb "pay"
Aug 26, 2020
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What is this mop-like tool called in English?
Dec 10, 2017
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How do we express we want someone to do what we say without any negotiation?
Jan 17, 2022
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Pick a number between one and ten
May 28, 2015
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"On the grounds that" suggests the reason isn’t really a good one
Jul 11, 2021
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Times-two faster than bit-shift, for Python 3.x integers?
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shell command to get pixel size of an image
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Convert Scala Any to Java Object
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How can I avoid learning an incorrect pronunciation due to a word's spelling?
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Is it OK to ignore InterruptedException if nobody calls interrupt()?

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