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1 - I don't know if this is the right place to ask this, but I would like to change the username that appears in the posts that I write. is it possible?
2 - I also tried to remove my user from the site and create a new one, but I don't find the place to remove my user. how do i delete my account?
thanks
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I can't find the link, but I have read that an account will not be deleted once it is attached to a post, even if the account holder moves on. The theory is that doing so may remove posts that other users might find helpful at some future time.
As for changing the user name, there does seem to be no such option. I would guess that it is tied up with the primary key for your account in the database.
Perhaps a moderator will be able help you with that.
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He can ask the root instead to change his username like I did.
As did I.
It looks like s/he did -- the current name is different than the quoted name.
xeon123,
W/ 172 posts, & considering that there is no apparent relationship between your old name & your new one; putting a note about the name change in your profile or sig might lessen members' confusion.
Last edited by archtoad6; 03-05-2011 at 03:46 AM.
Reason: missing puntuation
Here's the long boring grammatical answer (I loves me my grammar; as syntax is to a bash script, grammar is to writing and speaking).
"Like I did" is more informal; it's also more of an Americanism. "As did I" is more formal; it's also more of a British-ism (though globalization has significantly eroded that distinction).
For all practical purposes, "like I did" = "as I did" = "as did I"; it doesn't matter except in the most formal of places.
LQ is not one of those places.
Here's the technical English grammatical argument:
Old fashioned persons such as I could point that that "as" can be a conjunction, whereas "like" is a preposition (or a verb), but not a conjunction.
Since "like" is not a conjunction, "like I did" is not acceptable because "like" is serving as a conjunction, something it ain't. (This, by the way, is why "like did I" doesn't work and "as did I" does. "Like I did" has become acceptable as an expression, but "like" is not accepted as a conjunction.)
Fifty years ago, this could have been a persuasive argument. No more.
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Originally Posted by frankbell
Here's the technical English grammatical argument:
Old fashioned persons such as I could point that that "as" can be a conjunction, whereas "like" is a preposition (or a verb), but not a conjunction.
Since "like" is not a conjunction, "like I did" is not acceptable because "like" is serving as a conjunction, something it ain't. (This, by the way, is why "like did I" doesn't work and "as did I" does. "Like I did" has become acceptable as an expression, but "like" is not accepted as a conjunction.)
Absolutely brilliant explanation Frank but why did you say "ain't" in such an otherwise eloquent piece of literary brilliance?
"Like I did" is more informal; it's also more of an Americanism. "As did I" is more formal; it's also more of a British-ism (though globalization has significantly eroded that distinction).
Thanks for tellings , how could I have known that!? Is it listed somewhere what is considered formal and what not? I did read your remaining explanation too, though it was a bit over the top for me But do keep on correcting me, I'll learn, one day or the other!
For the record, I was not correcting Anisha; just exercising my sense of style (it needed the exercise ). I was deliberately contrasting my phrasing to hers, but w/ no criticism intended, I only wanted to present a pleasing variation.
Again, for the record, 1st I chose to use "did I"; "As" followed from that. Had Anisha said "... as I did.", I could still have said "As did I." & achieved my goal.
As () to frankbell's eloquent post, a more complete explanation is in the WikipediaŽ article "Like".
FWIW, I'll be 0x42 in 3 weeks, & I remember those Marlboro ads & my teachers' reactions to them.
I'm sort of an informal student of American English and its history, so I've read a lot of books about it, having made my living with my pen/typewriter/keyboard throughout my career; I also taught business writing for a number of years.
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