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> That's hard to guess. There are three common measure words meaning "pair" [...] > If you actually wanted one chopstick, you'd say 一只筷子. Traditional Chinese script versions of Sim…

I'm under the impression this is a Chinese vs. Japanese difference. Shoveling food into your mouth is perfectly acceptable in Chinese etiquette but discouraged in Japanese. Accordi…

I totally agree with this, and will add that another benefit of whimsical names is discoverability. If your project is named plugin-update-checker and I want to find documentation …

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I will share a concrete example where I've recently run into this problem. In order to make use of OpenStruct, `require 'ostruct'` first needs to be declared. Our code neglected to…

> I bet one of those color comparison graphs of the average website in 1998 through today would show the same trend. Indeed

When the comment you replied to mentioned "Chinese has gotten by for thousands of years without any plurals at all", I understood it to mean that Chinese has not featured any gener…

To be more accurate, 们 isn't a plural marker more because of the fact that it's not productive[1], rather than the fact that Chinese doesn't have declension. If 们 were able to be s…

It's probably more a reference to The Cannonball Run film[1], which the designer of Out Run mentioned[2] inspired the original game. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cannonbal…

I noticed the word 'jugaad' from his speech and looked it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad It seems like a very befitting word for the eponymous "hacker" ethos of this site…

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