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Jul 18, 2011 at 21:15	comment	added	Rachel		@Alain Pannetier Absolutely! Although this is far from a popularity contest, maybe I am wrong in my thought process. I figure that if I can type words into a search engine than anybody can, there is nothing special about me in that sense. I guess my thinking when drafting my answer was that if an individual has come to EL&U it is because he/she feels they have exhausted all the more basic sites we can all go to for answers, and is therefore looking for more...not what they have just found online themselves, but a deeper conversation of the minutia as well.
Jul 16, 2011 at 7:14	comment	added	Alain Pannetier Φ		Let me first tell you that I tend not to do that and that I perfectly understand how you feel. You think something along the line of "this is unfair this guy googled up the OP's question, cut and pasted the 3rd link from the top. Job done and he hoards 10 upvotes for this". But on the other hand 1/ some questions have found an academic answer long before EL&U existed, 2/ The answer is probably better worded and thought over in sources like wikipedia. 3/ If you cite an authoritative source, your answer cannot be considered as just your personal invention (e.g. etymonline).
Jul 13, 2011 at 2:21	history	answered	Rachel	CC BY-SA 3.0