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Re:AI suggestions make writing more generic, Western by pk97 on Friday May 02, 2025 @02:11AM (#43866659)
exactly, it stands for "I have a question" :) It stems from the school/coaching system where you are encouraged to ask questions as you figure out say a problem set in dedicated "doubt clearing" sessions with your teachers/instructors. That carries over to the workplace where you are more likely to hear this phrase when someone has a question in a technical discussion or similar, from my observations.
Re:AI suggestions make writing more generic, Western by saurik on Saturday May 10, 2025 @11:17PM (#43951060)
This just seems like a tautology, as--from your description--it sounds like this is what I'd call a "q&a session", and so it may as well have become a "doubt clearing/solving session" because the teachers/instructors themselves also/already were taught that terminology... I'm wondering where it started, as, in English, the word "doubt" frankly almost never comes up, and if someone simply didn't learn it, they'd be fine?