#Language

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dorkymintine

ok I feel the need to educate american oomfs regarding “gringa/gringo” given the situation yesterday:-it is NOT a slur-it is NOT an insultits just a way to referring to american

Reyna L Gordon

CrunchyNeuroSci

Thrilled to announce our new paper published in @WIREs_Reviews, “Is atypical rhythm a risk factor for developmental speech and language disorders?” https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1528 w/@EnikoLadanyi @v_persici @Anna5ash @btill_lyon framing the Atypical

dramaturgically it tracks

YasminZacaria

"Unlike minstrelsy or blackface in the United States, this make up was done as a sign of empathy and realism." OBJECTIVITY IS WHITE SUPREMACY @NPR This is UNACCEPTABLE reporting. You

The Autisticats - #StopTheShock

autisticats

For those who don’t know, Sia (the musician) released the trailer for a film called Music yesterday, that she directed. It’s about an autistic girl named Music, who is played

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angeltaehyungv

Sarcasm is part of the Use (pragmatics) section of language communication. In *some* people with communication disorders, stemming from a variety of reasons (eg, autism), their ability to understand these

Known Heretic: Amy E. Sousa #IStandWithJKR

KnownHeretic

URGENT: STOP all participation in gender jargon! The safety of women & children depends on our ability to rely on our instincts & accurately identify sex quickly. Gender jargon creates

Sue Fletcher-Watson

SueReviews

APA guidelines still recommend person-first language for writing about autism but I am trying to use identity-first nearly all the time now. We had a positive experience with a journal

Nicole Taylor

NikkiZeGame

@ehsuwcomp Amy Tan's Mother Tongue was an inspirational and eye-opening read to understanding the prejudice immigrant families experience and their interactions with others solely due to the way they speak

elizabeth

bitchardthe3rd

fun language fact: the phrase “you guys” wasn’t originally gendered — it didn’t originally refer to a group of men. it actually goes back to guy fawkes, aka this guy!

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christapeterso

My program makes us take a history of analytic phil seminar in our first term that covers topics such as the “unity of the proposition,” which is... how propositions.....hold together

Melissa Florer-Bixler, Chevy Nova

MelissaFloBix

See if you can name the problems. There are many. Religion = a thing that used to have God's "participation and approval" but doesn't anymore (if it ever did)Old covenant

Trisha Gee

trisha_gee

#Java turns 25 things this month. What's your favourite thing about Java or the JVM? Features (e.g. Streams API) or "other" (e.g. Community), both types of answers encouraged! Note: answers

Daniel Sohege

stand_for_all

Thread: This isn't a jibe at BBC, they are trying to put a balanced voxpop together on a highly contentious subject. What concerns me is how certain words and phrases

Berina

anirebee

A friend asked me why Bosnians sometimes get offended when people claim we speak the same language as Serbs and Croats and are just a dialect of Serbo-Croatian. I’m no

Yinka Chukwuemeka Ogunnubi

yinkanubi

Dear Kingsley,There are a million better ways to put out your thoughts than to descend to denigrating language to describe people you once canvassed for their votes.Everyone knows we need

Helen🏳️‍⚧️💙

mimmymum

This is a perfect example of how transphobes use the “unreasonable activist” trope.“If only you pesky trans people being attacked by massively influential bigots, would not complain about your oppression”While