#Language

R. Sarina

rsarina__

(1/4) Many people don’t realise how being ‘woke’ aka being aware of current social issues, geopolitics, cultural sensitivities, etc, come with the PRIVILEGE of having a good education or having

Rebecca Gayle Howell

howtopreserve

The last couple of weeks I've been meeting with MFA classrooms where #AmericanPurgatory is being taught. What I'm finding is that now the book is loosening students into their quarantine

loner

Litycurls

Being smart isn’t necessarily a good thing. To me, it’s completely the opposite. It makes you different than everybody else, you don’t see things the way the majority of people

Scott MacFarlane

MacFarlaneNews

Wednesday's US House Oversight Committee hearing into Jan 6 Insurrection will review whether US Justice Dept had blind eye toward right-wing extremism under Pres. Trump, per US House aides Committee

michael wave

SzMarsupial

so you get a lot of context-appropriate looseness about what you associate with your culture very quickly being reified into very inflexible, almost mandatory? identity markers, despite their totally arbitrary

Jo Moore

JoMoore_

Last week my MOM got an actual TATTOO. I'm still in shock. Important deets - 1. She's been drunk twice, ever2. She thinks "crap" is quite a bad swear word3.

supernova irvin edwards

bombaycanary

Ok, while I think that dismissing somebody's art is generally dotish because somebody's art is self-expression, I also don't think that art being subjective is is any reason not to

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xbastarz

i think i'll keep talking to myself here but this time abt the time when i was living abroad by an exchange programit will get sad cause i was struggling

Monash Libraries

MonashLibraries

We recently evaluated the impact of our pre-filmed Online Storytime program that we offered for the first 6 months of the pandemic and here's what we learnt:(Thread)#librarieschangelives @ALIAVic @ALIANational @PubLibrariesVic

TheCyberChick

warriors_mom

Wanted: People who know half century-old computer language so states can process unemployment claims: there are still 220B lines of COBOL in use today. 43% of banking systems are built

mel

holyqueerit

What is your favorite fact about the Bible that changed everything when you learned it?I’ll start: Mine will always be when I learned that the lovers in Song of Solomon

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kimlorenn

Since I see soo many post about learning a new skill during this pandemic. I want to talk about two things. If you chose not to learn a new skill

natalia

natalialuna____

gonna vent for a sec: it’s really hard for me not to express the intense anger i feel at people promoting white supremacy, racial capitalism, policing/surveillance, etc. i have to

Nafees Ur Rehman Durrani

NafeesRehmanDr

Today is the 25th death anniversary of Ameer Hamza Shinwari — the legendary sufi poet of Pashto language. He is called the father of Ghazal in Pashto language. One, out

Albannach

SaorAlbannach

So tonight I've noticed an interesting pattern relating to #BothVotesSNP that's worth flagging.I've spotted several, apparently fake pro-SNP accounts, all based outside of Scotland, all using weird language. Buckle up...Thread

True Indology

TIinExile

Did you know?Many of the dirty abuses in Hindi had actually entered into the language after Islαmic invasion.For instance,the most commonly used expletive 'mādarch0d' (मादरचोद) is of foreign origin.Word mādar