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Ben Kovitz

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.

Grad student in cognitive science and computer science at Indiana University. Occasional Wikipedian.

Native speaker of American English (Midwestern).

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15 How helpful is it to add “Hope this is helpful!” to an ELL answer? Feb 16 '15
9 Bullying trolls, lack of moderators Jan 16 '15
8 Questions about understanding a passage about a specialty topic May 29 '17
8 Which sorts of math questions are on-topic? May 22 '15
7 Why ONLY some questions asking lyrics meaning are off topic and not all? Dec 20 '14
7 Traditional grammar vs. “contemporary grammar” as a vocabulary for talking about grammar with EFL learners Mar 8 '15
5 Let's merge [passive-voice] and [active-voice] into a new tag, [passive-active] May 24 '15
2 Isn't it reasonable to assume English learners intuitively understand colloquialism and wordplay? Oct 25 '19
1 What does this mean? ✳ Feb 27 '15
1 Pretentious writing tag Feb 17 '15
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