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Scott Deerwester
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  • Rossville, IN
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I've been involved in writing code for decades, having cycled through careers as a sysadmin (on a PDP 11/70 running UNIX), a systems analyst, a professor, a CTO, a chief architect, a CIO... and coding throughout. My current principal languages are Go, C++ and Python.

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What does linguistics call sets of words with the same spelling, different (but perhaps related) meaning, and different emphasized syllables?
Jan 20, 2021
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Are "haff to" and "have to" different words in spoken English?
Jan 25, 2021
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Is it a coincidence that words ending in -ooch in English tend to be colloquial? If not, why?
Jun 11, 2020
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How did "murder of crows", "pride of lions" and similar collective classifiers in English come to be used?
Sep 9, 2020
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Are there any languages in which a simple puff of air (like blowing out a candle) is phonemic?
Jul 11, 2020
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Is h↓ the correct IPA representation of the ingressive "fast gasp", meaning "uh-huh", in French?
Jul 12, 2020
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Are there any Latin and (ancient) Hebrew words with common origins?
Nov 13, 2019
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Could the latin word terrere be related to the Hebrew word תִּירָא (tira)?
Oct 26, 2019
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Is the English word "for" etymologically related to the Greek word "γὰρ" (gar)?
Jun 28, 2020
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Equivalent of Python string.format in Go?
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Retrieve optional query variables with gorilla mux?
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Retrieve optional query variables with gorilla mux?
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Have any major Christian intellectuals responded to Stephen Hawking's "The Grand Design"?
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How do I dynamically import locales in Angular 9?