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by taejo 7y ago
If you poll a hundred voters and 70 of them say they're voting Wolf and them say they're voting Sheep, do you know nothing more than at least 70 people will vote Wolf and 30 Sheep?
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by taejo 7y ago
If you're interested in this you might also like http://testyourvocab.com/ I'm working on something similar for German at the moment.
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by taejo 7y ago
I use the Firefox extension "Hide fixed elements", which is not only useful for hiding these kinds of modals but also overlarge headers and cookie warnings.
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by taejo 7y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. You can argue that "aluminium" and "aluminum" are two different words, each pronounced the same way in Britain as in the US, but with the former being common in Brit
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by taejo 7y ago
I believe BEng distinguishes "fillet" (with a final t ) from "filet" (without), the former having been borrowed from French when it still had a /t/ at the end, and the latter being a later re-borrowing (usuall
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by taejo 7y ago
If by "it exists", you mean that there are dialects in which those are the pronunciations of "piano tuner" and "tuna sandwich" then I'd like to know more, but I've met many people who speak dialects w
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by taejo 7y ago
Even if it's not really a vowel length change in Australian English, I'm pretty confident it is in South African English (as spoken by me and many others). Ferry/fairy are distinguished by vowel length only.
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by taejo 7y ago
I.e., they have the same quality but different quantity , and German does distinguish vowels by length, so they are different sounds in the sense that two words that otherwise sound the same can be distinguished by vowel length. "Ra
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by taejo 7y ago
"trade in shark fins" is correct, "shark-fin trade" would be too; "trade with shark fins" would be weird. Compare the frequencies for a more common commodity: https://books.google.com/ngrams&#x2
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by taejo 7y ago
BTW, Esperanto has a few _hundred_ native speakers and tens or hundreds of thousands of speakers. I agree that it's not comparable to a natural language, but there are many, many natural language communities that are much smaller.
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by taejo 7y ago
Lines of longitude are great circles. Grandparent must mean latitude: the equator is a line of latitude, and the only one that is a great circle.
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by taejo 7y ago
If you stop believing in the disease, it doesn't go away, so no.
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by taejo 7y ago
Repeating the same thing you said before isn't the best way of clarifying what you mean, but fair enough, I do now understand what you're trying to say.
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by taejo 7y ago
> it really isn't simpler with 10 and 100. Only if you ignore the complexity of teaching a whole population to do arithmetic in a different base.
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by taejo 7y ago
It seems like you might have eaten the onion, I'm afraid: that's not senator Bob Collins, it's satirist John Clarke.
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by taejo 7y ago
But it's often made with Rose's Lime Juice, a concentrate, which AFAICT contains no vitamin C.
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by taejo 7y ago
The "ta" in "herbata" has the same origin as "tea".
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by taejo 7y ago
> Are there really that many non Germans speakers that you need to use English? I'm not OP, but also at a Berlin tech company. I always say I'm glad I learned German (in a much smaller city elsewhere in Germany) before moving h
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by taejo 7y ago
In a properly constructed (shaped) gear, the teeth should roll against each other rather than sliding (i.e. the velocities of the contact points are the same).
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by taejo 7y ago
The one I heard was this: When Ivan was a boy, he asked a Party Man, "How will we know when true communism has been acheived?" The Party Man thought for a little bit, and said, "The shops will be full of goods, and there will
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by taejo 7y ago
I use the extension "Hide Fixed Elements" which is similar.
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by taejo 7y ago
It's not that they seem inapplicable to some domain: they're applicable to a huge number of domains (basically any kind of constraint satisfaction problem). A lot of people thinks that this generality means that solving SAT proble
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by taejo 7y ago
> I'm not sure humans are designed to down this many cals before putting on their shoes in the morning Do you have any evidence to separate this hypothesis from "I'm not designed to..." or "I'm not used to..
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by taejo 7y ago
AIUI there's chilli powder in the breading, too.
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by taejo 7y ago
Vegetable in a botanical sense just means "plant", so even if you for some reason insist on using technical terms in non-technical discussions, avocados are still vegetables.
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by taejo 7y ago
Correct. Also, avocados are vegetables: > 2. A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, or spice in the culinary sense. > 3. The edi
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by taejo 7y ago
Two years as a child could be plenty to develop a local accent. I know people who lived in Germany for less than that time (usually because of US military parents) and return to Germany after decades of not speaking the language at all wi
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by taejo 7y ago
According to their website they only take complaints about commercial spam. The spam I'm referring to comes from a non-EU political party, which probably makes things more complicated.
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> If there is any kind of problem here, it's that two or more colluding racers that take turns drafting each other can race faster together than each of the individual racers cycling alone, and that cycling features many different c
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by taejo 7y ago
Those marketing purposes are exactly what dtech is referring to.

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