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Data is a weird word. I know that it’s a word of Latin pedigree and that in Latin its singular form was datum. It feels so weird to think of it as plural, as I found it’s the preferred style for journals.

Part 2 - Writing in R Markdown, inline code, code blocks, and LaTeX environments The first thing you need to know is that Markdown is a lightweight markup language for plain text editing.

Part 1 — linguistics examples and glosses. I’m writing my dissertation right now. I feel terrible that it took me longer than a year to get started. I loved the topic, I picked it myself.

One of the things I found most challenging about multisyllabic words in English is that you don’t really pronounce most of the vowels except for the vowel in the stressed syllable; the rest are just unstressed central vocoids or schwas.

So … there is this expression in Japanese ‘ohayou gozaimasu’ that I learned first when I took this introductory class to Japanese culture back during my USB college days in Venezuela.

Linguistic trivia I’m confused by the expression ‘a piece of fruit.’ Why not just a fruit? I used to think of fruit as a hypernym for all kinds of fruits.