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by Wooddar 2314 days ago
This problem is exactly why I decided to create my Slack app Whatis! https://whatis.rocks/
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Zhyl 2314 days ago
Shouldn't it be "What are rocks?"
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Wooddar 2314 days ago
Yes but in this case “rocks” actually refers to our team’s project to migrate from Oracle MySQL to Postgres. Did they not cover that in your onboarding?
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rimliu 2314 days ago
I sometimes use "whois X?", even if the correct form would be "what is?" or "who are?". Using and old IRCism is just more fun.
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Zhyl 2314 days ago
I guess it would depend whether you were accessing the URL in the second or third person.
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Jestar342 2314 days ago
it could easily be "What is 'rocks'?"
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Razengan 2314 days ago
Or that the entity/object represented by the noun "WhatIs" rocks.
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