Question asker?

[tgreer]

Is there a single, tidy, high-school vocabularly level term for a "person asking the question"?

I'm writing a technical article which begins with a list of questions that have been asked about a topic. The next sentence is "In each case, the ______ had a fundamental misunderstanding of the...".

Questioner? Question asker? Question poser? Inquisitor?

For now I have "the person asking the question".



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[edfair]

inquiror?

Ed Fair
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[CajunCenturion]

Questioner is a valid word, although not very common. Another candidate is 'poser'.

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[CajunCenturion]

There is also asker, interrogator, solicitor, and perhaps requestor.

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[tgreer]

questioner" is the leading candidate. It just sounds a little too "George Bush-ish" to my ear.



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[SilentAiche]

tgreer

I think you've already got it. I can't see coming up with anything better than "the person asking the question". You've also already come up with what had been my first alternative (inquisitor).

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Tim

 

[tsdragon]

I'm surprised no-one mentioned "querier".

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[SilentAiche]

CC

Humbly, with respect to "Poser," I think it might have some negative slang connotations, especially among the high school crowd. I'm not completely sure of its usage, but I think it's something like the kid who dresses really nice and acts like he has money (but actually comes from the poor side of town) might be considered a poser.

Tim

 

[strongm]

That would actually be 'poseur' rather than 'poser'

 

[Dimandja]

>inquiror?

If you spell that as "enquirer", I'll vote for it.

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[Dimandja]

Or "inquirer".

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[tgreer]

Since all the questions were on online forums, "poster" might work.



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[CajunCenturion]

In Tek-Tips, we have the acronym 'OP' which refers to the Original Poster, or the one who started the thread. I don't know how acceptable that acronym might be outside of the Tek-Tips environment.

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[SilentAiche]

strongm

Actually, my 1970 Webster's lists the following:

Poser¹: n., a person who poses; esp., a poseur.

Truth be known, until you wrote I did not think of the word poseur. However, I feel completely vindicated by my aged word book.

Of course, you may question the strength of my old dictionary, for although it has a [green]steam engine[/green], a [green]carburetor[/green] and even a [green]hemi[/green], I can still only get one [green]horsepower[/green] out of it.

Tim

 

[CajunCenturion]

SilentAiche - How does your dictionary define

poser²: n

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[elanor]

Doesn't "interlocutor" mean questioner?
Thanks!
Elanor

 

[SilentAiche]

CC

Poser²: n., a baffling question or problem.

BTW - in my 11:49 post I didn't mean to imply that Poser was not an adequate alternative to "question asker." I just wanted to point out a possible second, undesired meaning.

BTW2 - to whoever (EE?) put the time next to the post dates, way to go! Outstanding additional feature.

Tim

 

[CajunCenturion]

The posting dates were added to all forums by the site owners -- The Tecumseh Group, Inc. ESquared is the moderator for the Wordplay forum, just as I am the moderator for this one.

I agree, it was a good enhancement to the site. In case anyone is wondering, the time is the time on the Tecumseh Group server (USA Eastern Standard/Daylight).

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[SilentAiche]

CC

The confusion is mine (I'm used it!).

I think it started with the recent revelation that EE could edit the thread titles - I must have assumed he had a hand in running the whole shebang.

And I was wondering about the time - is the "submit" time, the "start writing" time, or something else?

Tim

 

[CajunCenturion]

I would guess that it's the time that the post was added to the database.

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