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Ben Kovitz
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If you don't know the meaning of a word, and you read a dictionary definition, then you probably still won't know the meaning of the word.

If you memorize 10,000 rules of English grammar, you still won't know English grammar.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Cal Poly Humboldt. Ph.D. in cognitive science and computer science. Occasional Wikipedian.

Native speaker of American English (Midwestern).

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How helpful is it to add "Hope this is helpful!" to an ELL answer?
Feb 16, 2015
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Bullying trolls, lack of moderators
Jan 16, 2015
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Traditional grammar vs. "contemporary grammar" as a vocabulary for talking about grammar with EFL learners
Mar 8, 2015
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Why ONLY some questions asking lyrics meaning are off topic and not all?
Dec 20, 2014
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Which sorts of math questions are on-topic?
May 22, 2015
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Questions about understanding a passage about a specialty topic
May 29, 2017
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Let's merge [passive-voice] and [active-voice] into a new tag, [passive-active]
May 24, 2015
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Pretentious writing tag
Feb 11, 2015
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Isn't it reasonable to assume English learners intuitively understand colloquialism and wordplay?
Oct 25, 2019
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Pretentious writing tag
Feb 17, 2015
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What is Google Translate good for?
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What is this strange sentence by Walt Whitman?
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How do you say 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 in words?
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Why do people, incorrectly, begin a sentence with the word "But"?
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How do you return from a function early in Clojure?