English Language & Usage
FumbleFingers
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I did my degree in English/French Language/Linguistics back in the '70s, but I only got a middling grade, and I've worked in software development ever since, so I'm really only an expert on English language in the same way any articulate native speaker is.

respect (noun)

  • something you've got to have in order to get
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Why are answers being posted in the comments on the question?
May 15 '12
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2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
Jun 9 '14
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How do I insert an actual NGram chart into my post?
May 20 '11
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What's the status of ELL relative to ELU
Jan 28 '13
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Why are all the contributors here so nasty to each other?
Mar 26 '17
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Why are ELU's users so easily irritated?
Nov 12 '14
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50 question per month limit?
Feb 27 '14
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What constitutes justification for posing a question on ELU?
Feb 9 '12
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Why did so few people vote in the 2012 elections for moderators?
Aug 27 '12
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Effort wasted answering a question deleted before posting my answer
Jun 14 '13
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"Replace with" versus "replace by"
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An English idiom for "solve a problem that has been solved"?
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Is there a word for a change so small that it doesn’t seem to be a change at all?
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Why is "He knows to swim" incorrect?
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Looking for a word to describe the sound of the morning as hundreds of birds begin singing before sunrise?

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