For example, let's say I'm a physicist, so I'm not stupid. But, I'm talking to someone who is an accountant and they insult me for not knowing accounting jargon or how to do things involved in their field during a conversation.
Usage in sentence:  Person A: Ooh - look at that crow!  Person B: Well, actually, as someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works.  Person A: Are you always such an XXX?   "Pedant" is close, but not quite.  It would be a mix of "know-it-all", "condescending" and "arrogant".
To my (British) ear, it never sounds correct to say you have a doubt about something.  I expect that doubt to be pluralised, even if there's only one specific thing that I'm doubtful of, in one specific way, so I would always say "I have doubts about something".  Answers to  say that using doubt as a synonym for question is "Indian English". That seems to be the case in  which starts with "I have a doubt on my construction", because the OP really is saying "I have a question" (which he goes on to actually ask). Okay, it should have been a question/doubt about something, not on, but I'm not concerned with that detail here.  But in  the OP says "...there is a doubt that can I use [some construction]". In that case it's not easy to see how the word doubt can be replaced with question.  I don't have a problem with, for example, , because there I interpret it as doubt=uncertainty (a state of mind, syntactically equivalent to words like happiness, agitation, sorrow, etc.). But you certainly can't "have a happiness about something". So my question is...     Is it acceptable today to use singular noun doubt in any contexts where it means something other than state of mental uncertainty? If so, what are those contexts? What is the view on accounts shared by multiple users on Stack Overflow? It has been my understanding that accounts are suppose to be for a specific user. This user, , is a company: . No doubt, this account has provided some quality answers. However, if a specific user cannot be identified, I don't think that the rep gain, rewards, or badges should be given. This should somehow be tagged as a 'Corporate User'. The rep has no real value when you can't be somewhat sure that the same person is giving the answers all the time.  This is where I found an answer by Devart: , peddling a product.    Edit 2 Good points have been brought up and most I can agree with. But we are setting a precedent. Meta Fudgey brought up a good point about the account's ability to use mod tools responsibly and consistently. Maybe this feature is not available to an account that appears to be an umbrella account unless a single user is identified. I think it is important to consider this aspect.    Let me re-iterate: the user(s) has provided excellent content and I would want that to continue. However, there is more at stake here than meaningful content and helpful resources.      Edit The view on 'shared' accounts wasn't so bright a year ago. For most of us, we have information in our profiles that identifies us as individuals. No, I don't have absolute knowledge of the activities on this account and how many people might use it. Meh, for all we know it could be a knowledgeable programmer with some good PR sense. On the other hand, it could be a PR person with no programming knowledge getting the answers from an employee. Who knows... What does Pirsig mean by "Quality"? Windows Update not working on Windows 2012 R2 Standard What is the direction of stack growth in most modern systems? I am preparing some training materials in C and I want my examples to fit the typical stack model.  What direction does a C stack grow in Linux, Windows, Mac OSX (PPC and x86), Solaris, and most recent Unixes? If I downvote every competing answer, will I get flagged for vote abuse? How do you mock a Sealed class? How to download packages from a command-line given repository? It is not about the common download &amp; install thing, what apt (aptitude, etc) does, it is a scripted download a package file.  I found the dget tool for this task, which works quite well. But, unfortunately, it doesn't have any option to specify a different repository URL as it is given in the /etc/apt/sources.list.  Is it somehow possible? Actually, a dget-like functionality would be the best, but where I can also specify the repo URL.    P.s. thank you very much the scripts, but I would like to prefer a debian tool for this very simple task. It will be part of a buildscript, for external usage, and any unneeded complexity has intolerable collateral costs. It must be done by a debian tool.  P.s.2. Finally I solved this with updating the system-wide repos, and downloading the packages with dget. Thank you very much the scripts! Do questions about specific StackOverflow implementation details belong on SO or Meta? has several discussion comments going back and forth about whether the question belongs on SO or Meta.  The question is asking about how a specific feature of the site is implemented from a coding perspective (so that the OP might duplicate it in their own implementation), which can make it a legitimate programming question.  According to the Meta FAQ: "If your "question is about ... Stack Overflow / The core Stack Exchange engine", it should be asked here.  Here are some similar example questions on Meta:         Where do these questions belong? Why am I still being asked for an ssh password when I'm using private key authentication? How to compare objects by multiple fields Assume you have some objects which have several fields they can be compared by:  public class Person {      private String firstName;     private String lastName;     private String age;      /* Constructors */      /* Methods */  }   So in this example, when you ask if:  a.compareTo(b) &gt; 0   you might be asking if a's last name comes before b's, or if a is older than b, etc...  What is the cleanest way to enable multiple comparison between these kinds of objects without adding unnecessary clutter or overhead?   java.lang.Comparable interface allows comparison by one field only Adding numerous compare methods (i.e. compareByFirstName(), compareByAge(), etc...) is cluttered in my opinion.   So what is the best way to go about this? Help me identify this fantasy book about two near-omnipotent wizard run empires Clear some doubts and questions about the Witch-king of Angmar I recently found out about the war between Arnor and Angmar, and was pretty shocked to learn that the Witch-king basically wiped the floor with the Dúnedain kingdom... I mean he's basically the sole reason Aragorn wanders around like a homeless person.  So with which army did the Witch-king defeat Arnor? Orcs? Men? Sorcery? Did he ever go to battle himself? Did he do this for laughs or by Sauron's orders?   How powerful was the Witch-king at this point, compared to in the Fellowship of the Ring and Return of the King? Were the other Nazgul with him in this war?   And it doesn't even matter to me if all of the eight Nazgul were with him, even if they all had their Rings of Power, and even if they had the largest of armies of Orcs, Men, Elves, Dwarves or even dragons (yes I'm exaggerating at this point), but just how do you defeat a kingdom full of Dúnedain?   We have all seen what Aragorn is capable of doing, so how do you defeat a kingdom worth of Aragorns?   And if it is not much to ask, does anyone know where I can read all about this war and more about the Witch-king? so far all I read about it was from the Internet, wikis, forums and alike, I'd like to read it from the source. Why couldn't Voldemort view the prophecy without Harry's help? Can I solve system of differential equation in a matrix form? I am currently developing an RPG game with a classic experience-points and levelup mechanic. The player kills monsters, gains experience points, levels up when they collect enough and become stronger.  How do I balance the amount of Exp points necessary for reaching each level and the amount of Exp awarded by each monster on each level? What are the rules for calling the base class constructor? I'd like to determine the function corresponding to the following power series: $$x + \sum_{n=1}^\infty (-1)^n\frac{1\cdot3\cdot5\cdots(2n-1)}{2\cdot4\cdot6\cdots2n} \frac{x^{2n+1}}{2n+1}, $$ where $|x|&lt;1$. Why do Google search results include pages disallowed in robots.txt? I have some pages on my site that I want to keep search engines away from, so I disallowed them in my robots.txt file like this: User-Agent: * Disallow: /email  Yet I recently noticed that Google still sometimes returns links to those pages in their search results.  Why does this happen, and how can I stop it? Background: Several years ago, I made a simple web site for a club a relative of mine was involved in.  They wanted to have e-mail links on their pages, so, to try and keep those e-mail addresses from ending up on too many spam lists, instead of using direct mailto: links I made those links point to a simple redirector /  script running on my own site.  This script would return either a 301 redirect to the actual mailto: URL, or, if it detected a suspicious access pattern, a page containing lots of random fake e-mail addresses and links to more such pages.  To keep legitimate search bots away from the trap, I set up the robots.txt rule shown above, disallowing the entire space of both legit redirector links and trap pages. Just recently, however, one of the people in the club searched Google for their own name and was quite surprised when one of the results on the first page was a link to the redirector script, with a title consisting of their e-mail address followed by my name.  Of course, they immediately e-mailed me and wanted to know how to get their address out of Google's index.  I was quite surprised too, since I had no idea that Google would index such URLs at all, seemingly in violation of my robots.txt rule. I did manage to submit a removal request to Google, and it seems to have worked, but I'd like to know why and how Google is circumventing my robots.txt like that and how to make sure that none of the disallowed pages will show up in their search results. Ps. I actually found out a possible explanation and solution, which I'll post below, while preparing this question, but  in case someone else might have the same problem.  Please do feel free to post your own answers.  I'd also be interested in knowing if other search engines do this too, and whether the same solutions work for them also. How to install Ubuntu 18.04 alongside Windows 10