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Q: What's the name of the style of 3-8 lowercase letters in programming?

extremeaxe5If you go on GitHub, so many of the project names are 3-8 lowercase letters. So many directories of those projects are 3-8 lowercase letters. In the base level directory of most unix OS's, the directories are 3-8 lowercase letters. This occurs even if the directory's name is an abbreviation fo...

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Q: What is an antonym for postpone?

DonielFThe word postpone means to push off until later. I’ve checked several dictionaries, including thesaurus.com and Merriam Webster, but the results I get for an antonym all mean something to the effect of doing something now. I’m looking for a word that means to do something earlier than planned. Wh...

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Q: Which's grammar is correct, "astonished finding" or "astonished to find"?

张剑桥Like, we were astonished finding the cat climbing the tree itself, or we were astonished to find the cat...

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Q: Word for something that is both famous and infamous

wattostudiosI'm wondering if there is a word for something that is both famous and infamous, depending on context. An example, hopefully appropriate, is the Australian food Vegemite... In Australia, everyone knows what Vegemite is, almost everyone has tasted it, and the majority of people eat it regularly....

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad NS for domain in body, bad NS for domain in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, +3 more: www.thegarciniaeliteslim.com/max-pro by jokervop on english.SE
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Q: What type of word is SeQueL called, when you pronounce the abbreviation SQL as "SeQueL"

jdogIn database technology there is a standard called "Structured Query Language", which is abbreviated as SQL. However, some people pronounce SQL as "SeQueL". If SQL is an "abbreviation" or "acronym" - what could "SeQueL" be called. Ie. what is a word called that is an invented way to pronounce an ...

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad NS for domain in body: State Of Origin 2018 by Steve Jobs on english.SE
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08:11
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user: Making a small 'optimization' which instead actually leads to disaster by Scott on english.SE
 
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Færd
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13:46
@Mitch An interesting point about that diagram of the top 100 websites in the US was that thesaurus.com ranked 70-oddth.
Now to make it more evident how remarkable this is, consider that the content of thesaurus.com is mostly text and it's being compared with other sites that feature images and videos, and that those websites are ranked by traffic.
We've evolved into Thesaurusrexes.
@Cerberus How much do you charge for an hour/session? If you don't mind me asking.
Or how much a teacher of your stature would normally ask for?
@Educ Hello!
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@Færd Hello But I have to go now hope you doing well
Færd
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14:04
Thanks. You too!
(correction: "How much would a teacher ...")
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14:44
@Færd I sure hope whoever is gathering that data is taking into account what is meaningful. For that particular graph, the most salient is visits, not bytes downloaded. And then you'd have to account for repeat visits (some are OK, some not, like by robots).
That said, yes, that's remarkable since (from my personal experience), I've gotten a lot of that kind of info directly from Google's first 'word info' summary, and hardly ever need to visit the full site. And I wouldn't expect most people to even bother with a thesaurus (especially given all the questions on ELU where a thesaurus would have been the solution but it is athought the OP had no idea such a thing existed.
That said, thesaurus.com is ... I hesitate to say out loud... better than Roget's.
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Q: Choosing the exact word for a crime

NobuoSenseiI am preparing to pass an English test and one of the subjects in the oral exam could be describing a crime. I was thinking about talking about a time in which I was approached by 3 underage girls begging for money, I took my wallet out and gave them a couple of coins, but before I could put my...

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Q: What is it called when you ask a question with only "bad" answers?

FrankI saw a poll posted by a friend today on Facebook with this question: If you could go back in time and kill one, which would you choose? Ronald Regan Trump This question has no good answer if you're against killing people or you support both presidents. What would this be calle...

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Cerberus
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17:22
@Færd It depends a little bit, but this girl I tutored today pays €50/hour.
Sunday's boy €40.
Monday's girl €35.
I think €50 is now kind of normal, also because demand is high and few people teach classics.
But maybe more if they're super rich.
I should ask around...
 
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The Link Grammar Parser is a syntactic parser of English, based on link grammar, an original theory of English syntax.
 
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@Cerberus Why is Sunday's boy more expensive than Monday's girl? >_>
I'm just jesting. You seem like a pretty good tutor.
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Q: Is there a word which means past and current but not future?

John HascallFor example, one can refer to "past semesters" and to "the current semester", but if you want to refer to both of those while excluding future semesters? Something more concise -- hopefully a single word -- than "the current and past semesters". For example, like "extant" semesters, but better...

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@Cerberus That is about five to ten (or more) times higher than my pay (if I teach a language). But this has to be put in a broader context of "the cost of living" to make clearer sense.
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One is tarragon and the other savory (or whatchamacallit). I've learned to tell them apart (by appearance and taste).
 
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Q: Adjective or term for someone who refers to themself as crazy

McKartI was wondering if there's a term or adjective for someone who exaggerates and classifies their behavior as crazy, yet their behavior is completly normal

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