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Journal Journal: The CNN article on the Whyline

So today the CNN article on the Whyline was posted on Slashdot. It's funny: one of the first things we say in the paper, on the website, etc., is that it has nothing to do with natural language, English, or any other language. And yet both the AP writer and the Slashdot story poster all picked up on some weird "debugging in English" thing.

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Journal Journal: What's a useruser? 1

Useruser? I use users to enable users to use usable interfaces. In other words, I'm an academic geek who does empirical studies of users, specifically programmers.

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