Mechanical snail

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🐌. Native speaker of American English. Linux user. Familiar with several programming languages in the procedural, OO, and functional paradigms.

Link rot is evil. Archive everything. The keyboard is king. Correctness over performance. Canonicalize, normalize, deduplicate. Don't repeat yourself. UTF-8 > UTF-16. Use static typing: good for tooling. Re-use; don't re-invent. Correctness, then clarity, then concision and elegance. Play devil's advocate. First understand opponents' positions.

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21 Answers

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16	What's the difference between a “false cognate” and a “false friend”?
8	Change of B > W in casual speech
5	When should one use slashes or square brackets when transcribing in IPA?
5	Name for rhetoric expressing a two contradictory meanings in one sentence?
5	Is the concept of syllables pronunciation-relevant in languages with mora-based pronunciation?

+10	How are mathematical operators like “plus” and “cos” analyzed?
+10	What is the syllable structure of a word with an affricate in the onset?
+5	Rules for glottal stop insertion across languages
+10	What's the difference between a “false cognate” and a “false friend”?

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16	Do onomatopoeias resist sound change?
13	How are mathematical operators like “plus” and “cos” analyzed?
8	Why exactly is *“I Am America (And So Can You!)” ungrammatical?
7	Rules for glottal stop insertion across languages
7	How did the pitch-accent system of Western South Slavic emerge?