Stuart's Life in Thailand
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A new blog about language de-fossilization
For years I have been intrigued by how and why it is so difficult for me to learn how to communicate using the Thai language (as any reader of my blog has heard me say many times over the past 11 years). In fact, my lack of success is part of the reason I started working […]
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Linguistic Perspective on Writing Quality
Lately, I have been doing some research on the Linguistic perspective on writing quality: what frameworks/theories others have used in research, what their methodologies are, how they define “quality”, etc. I found quite a lot of articles, but after reading through them, I…
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Hiking Phuket: Chalong to Patong on Mother’s Day
To celebrate Mother’s Day in Thailand today, I went on a mountain hike from Chalong to Patong. As you can see on the map below, the trail is mostly forested. (And by “forested”, I mean “rubber plantations”.) But it is very wide and easy to follow, except for the steep mountain…
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Word Frequencies and Emoji
Over the past year and a half of my Ph.D. studies, the topic of word frequency has come up… frequently. We have talked about it in terms of corpus linguistics and understanding how the English language works, and also in terms of teaching English as a foreign language. These two…
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Moving from Movable Type to Word Press
Ever since I started blogging on this site 11 years and 1 month ago, I have been using MovableType as the Content Management System. But it seems that as my blogging decreased, so did the MovableType community and the MT development team. I have been thinking about moving…