Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 12hI think the trick to anything cornmeal based, eg kawunga, arepas, cornmeal congee, is salt ON the thing, not in the thing, so you get that salty / mild contrast. 130
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Imagine having the idea for the xylophone in Mamma Mia and being all, hear me out 010
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026One day the toogbei will be round. Today is not that day 010
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It actually is pretty dope how much space you save by going Times New Roman. 050
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026When they loaned "utilize" into English they were just messing with us. They were just having a laugh 010
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Took me a decade of linguistics to realize manner-voicing-place can be remembered as MVP 050
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's now on my bucket list to visit Dirty Frank's Hot Dog Palace 010
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Thai has pʰ p ɓ tʰ t ɗ but only kʰ k. Real g's move in silence like lasagna 020
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 31/08/2026All this training and the one thing an academic will never learn is how to take a damn break 020
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Hate how in semantics e is the entity TYPE but the event VARIABLE, t is the truth TYPE but the time variable... Just want to find whoever started this and sit them down for a nice lunch and ask when they lost control of the ontology. 130
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Do the languages yall know have different words for "literally go out of something" and "leave the house to do stuff", like English go out ~ head out? 110
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Hot take a stats class doesn't need the little dip into probability theory in the middle you can go straight from descriptive to inferential 120
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 29/08/2026My ideologies about contractions in scientific writing are a mixed bag. I really only like them in transitions. I think "We'll discuss this in the next section" sounds great but "The model didn't converge" sounds stylistically off. 020
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Hill I'll die on is you should at least TASTE the pho broth before drowning it in sriracha and hoisin 040
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 28/08/2026They should invent a way to learn 15-18 languages all at once 0111
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 26/08/2026In text citations shouldn't count towards your word count otherwise I'm only going to cite single authors with one word last names. 060
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 26/08/2026This class I'm taking requires undergrad-level probability theory. I last bombed high school stats in 2016. But hey, it's 2026, and after a decade of hard work... I am much older 020
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Wenige Erfahrungen die demütigender sind als das Eintropfen von Augentropfen 000
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Does anyone feel like English 'lowkey' and Mandarin hái 还 both can sometimes convey surprisal? e.g. the hot sauce is hotter than you expected. The hot sauce is lowkey pretty spicy. 这个辣酱还是比较辣。 000
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I was having spaghetti for breakfast and I picked up my fork mid-spaghetti and was like, huh, my fork has sauce on it, so I cleaned it off by swishing it in a cup of water. 1) the water that I was DRINKING 2) I DON'T EVEN PAINT 021
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I do hope someone somewhere has loaned tarte tatin into their language as /tatata/ 040
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I was like, I figured it out, a griddle is just a small grill! Then I was like, that can't be right, it's not grill + le. Then I looked it up and found out, lowkey it kind of is. 000
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 18/08/2026My platonic ideal of eggs and tomatoes is: Large curds of well browned egg puffed up from frying in a lot of oil Tomatoes 50% of the way to being mush Liquid reduced almost entirely, it shouldn't be soupy Ketchup and sugar Surprise addition if I'm feeling frisky: celery 020
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 17/08/2026New blog post where I talk about how to make overlappy arrows, among other LaTeX tricks: theycallmezeal.me/article/two-... 1101
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 16/08/2026#Lingule #1582 "pa dej teev": 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🏆 lingule.xyzlingule.xyzLinguleA fun little language game 131
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I do actually think I could eat ipapa noshatini every day 010
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Kawunga (aka ugali, aka pap) might rival rice I'm so serious. Goated carb 010
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Those smoked gouda Cheez Its took me somewhere on the journey 020
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I think I'm done with this article, so I can't wait for 24 hours from now when I come up with something else. 010
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Until I was like 20 I thought voucher was French. Like vooshay. 140
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The secret ingredient for takeout-style fried rice is actually the peas, which infuse a surprising amount of flavor into the oil. 040
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Proto Indo Europeans: I like to m̥t m̥t m̥t m̥pples and bm̥nm̥nm̥s 2163
Reposted by Adam AnKatharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026love that google translate reads this graph as ساسا 0244
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The first time on this flight, I got a small can of Coke dude next to me got a FULL can of ginger ale. The next time I was like, I see how it is, ginger ale please, I got HALF THE CAN IN A CUP. 130
Adam An @adamanlx.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Ironically 我不怎么觉得香菜有那么香... and it's not the soap gene 我倒是会吃, it's just that 香就是一个 thing and 香菜 just isn't that 020
