was retitled:     What is this function called?   Originally my title was:     How is this function called?   I still think that my version was correct; I always state such questions this way. Which one is really correct?
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Is it really wrong to say "How do we call something in English?" instead of "What do we call something in English?"? The former's not unusual in Philippine English at all (probably it's because of the influence of Spanish, which was the national language for almost 400 years). Indeed, it's quite interesting that in many European languages, they tend to say "how". Anyone who can explain this? Thanks a lot.
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I posted a question (  ) and they told me to post that question here. So I'm doing it.   I received answer that John doe is used as anyonymous person (victim in most cases) as placeholder for name.  Is there reason why it's "John Doe"?
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The only function on the  that looks like it does what I want appears to be a private function ().   What function am I supposed to use if all I know is the taxonomy term name and I need to find out its ID?
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So today I chimed in on IPS and scrolled a bit. This question caught my eye, because it had a number in it.     Something like that I haven't seen in a long time, if ever. Then I read the title and was confused at first, because it started with      ends in 4 days How do I...   This is obviously not proper English. It took me some time to realize that the text size isn't even the same, because the difference is very little in my opinion.   Also, I don't see any reason why that text is necessary in the title.    It gives no additional incentive to answer the question It seems like it's part of the question title It's already obvious that the question has a bounty The time until a bounty runs out is already visible inside a question   This update looks better or worse depending on the site style, but overall I think that it's not something that is needed and has more drawback than it adds.  So I am wondering why this text has been added in the first place and if it can be removed again? Perhaps a per-site solution is possible. I am open to discussion about it (mostly interested in what that text adds to the user experience).
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What do you call somebody who asks a question and somebody who answers a question?  I have exhausted the thesaurus with no real luck... any ideas?  EDIT: It is in reference to this - or any other StackExchange - site in which the question is posed by X and answer is submitted by Y.    EDIT 2: In the context of StackExchange, and the fact I need plurality (something I neglected to mention oooops), I have decided upon "Posters" and "Respondents"...
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Allow converting comments to answers, so they can become accepted answers.  I asked a question. Someone commented on it, and it was an awesome comment that fully answered the question. As the original questioner, I would like to convert that comment to an answer in order to accept it.  Or, if you prefer, I would be okay with being able to simply mark the comment as accepted.
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I posted a question somewhere that said...     Can anyone tell me how I can solve this?   ...but someone edited it to...      Can anyone tell me how can I solve this?    ...and it was accepted.  That's wrong isn't it? Can someone explain how that's wrong?
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Is answering beyond the scope of the question a valid thing? Or should we just stick to the question asked and ignore any potential bugs which might be present (of course OP is unaware of that, as of now).  To make myself more clear, please have a look at this .  There are 3 answers which talk about the issue asked and that's it. If you look at my answer, I've added an additional point about a potential bug which the OP has missed now (may find out later). So is it a good thing to point out such potential bugs or not? Should this practice be encouraged?
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While my code is compiling, I usually like to go through some reviewing and especially the late answers.  What I do see a lot in answers to old questions is the self-defense mechanism     ""   As if there is something fundamentally wrong with answering old questions. This leads me to two questions/thoughts:   Should we edit phrases like that out of the answer? (Given it's a good/valid answer to begin with, without any of the likely "old answer" problems. I realize the example linked to has its flaws.) Should we perhaps explicitly encourage answering old unanswered questions somewhere in the FAQ? (I'm unaware of any such recommendation, but might have read over it. Let me know if I did)
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I asked a question that has been marked as a duplicate. I read a lot of similar questions and explanations in advance but I couldn't find a solution. In the question that should answer my question the asker used a different (not working) approach. There is even an answer that would work for my case however I'd rather consider it as a workaround than a solution since I have seen examples using my approach.  So I would like your opinion in that case. Would it be ok to repost my question while explaining why other answers didn't help me? I edited my question but I think it's not getting any attention anymore. Naturally I will remove the old question.
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Do we always have to use the question how do you do? fixed in greeting people? Can we ask it in other situations rather than greetings? Like when we are wondering how someone is doing the given task.  Do we always have to use the question what do you do? for asking about sojeone's job? Can we use it sonetimes instead of ** what are you doing?**
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How do we refer to a question and all of its answers and comments collectively?  What is the normal word to use for this? I associate thread more with forums, not with SE. But is it used? What's the normally understood term on SE?  I also asked a  asking about Q&amp;A sites in general (not just SE convention), and going deeper into language aspects.  Here, I'm asking: What's the common way to say it on SE?
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What are some examples of functions which are continuous, but whose inverse is not continuous?  nb: I changed the question after a few comments, so some of the below no longer make sense. Sorry.
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What does it mean to extend a function? Can someone please give an example?  Thanks in advance!
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Please have a look at . When the question was asked by the OP, it had a scope related problem in the code snippet posted in it. 2 answers were posted for that question. But after the answers were posted, a friend of mine from Stack Overflow, edited the question(not sure with what intention) in such a way that the bug in the code was gone(it actually self answered the question). Please have a look at the question revision history, where I've rolled back the question to the original state, which has the problem in place.  My question is that, should such a practice be allowed/encouraged that an edit to a question renders all the answers posted for that question, totally irrelevant? As anybody who comes to have a look at the question later, will be highly confused as to why a question was asked without any problem and there were so many answers posted to it(not everybody cares to go through the revision history)? I happened to notice that, but not everybody would notice it.
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Testing the app, I noticed the title does not specify if a question is "On Hold" ... I haven't checked specifically, but would assume it doesn't specify as "Duplicate" either ... Or am I missing it somewhere? Is it not in the title but located/displayed some other way? If it is, this could be very confusing to users. If it isn't there, it's definitely confusing to users :-)  Using: Version 1.0.1.125 on iPad3 with iOS8
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I posted a comment on an answer, and refreshed the page.  I then noticed that someone else had also posted a comment.  His comment had an earlier timestamp, but was below mine.    What happened?  (I'm using the Android app, if that matters.)