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by Zhyl 2314 days ago
Shouldn't it be "What are rocks?"
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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?
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.
I guess it would depend whether you were accessing the URL in the second or third person.
it could easily be "What is 'rocks'?"
Or that the entity/object represented by the noun "WhatIs" rocks.