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In Cambodia coagulated pig and chicken blood are common, especially in soups and rice porridge/gruel. I eat it daily. Pig blood has a firmer texture and a more neutral taste -- it'…

It can be done quickly and accurately. Check out Peter Norvig's implementation of Viterbi algorithm for text segmentation. Segmentation is typically used for scripts of languages l…

I wouldn't worry too much. I was very late learning to walk among other things and a doctor told my mom that I was "not exactly gonna be playing outfield for the Yankees". No Yanke…

Oh, I suppose that could be read either way but given the context you're probably right. Thanks!

I'm sure you're aware of this, but the high demand from foreign language students is likely because US colleges often have a foreign language requirement. At my college it was four…

That sentence was fine. The relevant concepts here are preposition stranding and pied-piping . These are not "mechanical transformations" in the sense you mean -- there are certain…

International shipping is much riskier, so people are usually advised to only order domestically. Certain countries are known for stringently checking international packages -- Aus…

I did that basically, but I saved up enough to move to and live comfortably in SE Asia for at least 3 or 4 years. I spend less then $400 a month, so maybe this lifestyle is not for…

Adverbs and adverbial phrases can move pretty freely in English. These all sound fine to me: we are going to go to the airport by bus tomorrow we are going to go by bus to the airp…

It's good practice to check your intuition on things like this against a searchable corpus. According to http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/ , "most wicked" just barely edges out "wickedes…

In fact, I think the social interaction with other children of similar age is extremely important to developing social skills and friendships. And unfortunately social interaction …

Studying another language, especially a radically disparate one, reveals nuances in your native tongue that are hard to come upon otherwise. If you accept even a weak version of th…

I am not following much of what you're saying. I think you are deeply out of touch with what it is that linguists actually do -- this has nothing to do with the "needs of professio…

My point is that if you think the rules we learn in school about language are the same rules that allow us to communicate and understand each other, you're failing to realize the m…

The rules you've consciously learned about language constitute a tiny fraction of the rules that govern our use of language. Many of them ("don't split infinitives!", "no prepositi…

Typically ecstasy is MDMA pressed in pill form together with an amphetamine, although as you noted MDMA is often changed out for some other 'research chemical' that is cheaper to s…

Try simultaneously playing "Typewriter", "Vinyl Turntable", "VCR Rewinding", "Windows95 Startup", "Pac-Man", and "Dot Matrix Printer". It's beautiful. Reminds me of some of my favo…

She says people who commit suicide are losers can't apologize properly and work hard to make up for their mistake, or people who don't have the guts to weather through the hard tim…

Was it cold? Coconut juice tastes a lot better when it's ice cold IMO.

Do you know where the pink coconut water comes from? I drink it most every day straight from the coconut or poured into a plastic bag, and it always looks clear as water.

I took the NYT quote from Eduardo Romano to mean that after controlling for some of those confounding factors, there was no evidence of increased risk. I posted the NYT article bec…