#Language

Kirbmarc

kirbmarc

An opinion I have over the linguistic development of the future - even if the US lose some or even all of their power, English will stay the main international

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polypearIs

because its autism acceptance/awareness day i thought i'd do a little thread explaining why the majority of autistics, including myself, prefer identity-first language over person-first language. #WorldAutismAwarenessDay #AutismAcceptance

James Heale

JAHeale

Keir Starmer is being urged to sack frontbencher Lloyd Russell-Moyle after the Mail on Sunday unearthed footage of incendiary comments he made at an election rally in late November. In

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fuckudorani

I’m seeing a lot of confusion among the anitwt community regarding the usage of AAVE terms. Let me just remind you all English language keeps evolving every year and integrates

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andreaisahomo

so i’ve come to the conclusion that everything i’ve ever liked doing i’m bad at.soccer: i played for 11 years and never got good- i got slightly better in the

BBC Politics

BBCPolitics

Why do we talk about 'fighting' coronavirus - and is this language helpful or misleading?http://bbc.in/3e7bqNM "The language around Covid-19 has sometimes felt trite and misleading," says #Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis

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Dharm_gatha

The historic epic of Scripts and #SanskritLanguageThe history of Sanskrit language is as interesting as the history of its scripts. Today Sanskrit is written in Devanagari script but it was

Caroline Farrow

CF_Farrow

Just a thread to @benjaminbutter after today. I am disappointed that no sensible discussion was possible because Ben was too interested in presenting a “gotcha” and going after me personally.

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Limitless_Tyong

A closer look at Taeyong's lyrics on the topic of language: a thread#TAEYONG #NCT127 Despite Taeyong not being completely fluent in foreign languages, he is not afraid to use them

Solveig ⚧ - Autistic Acceptance Worldwide

autisticb4mmr

We're autistic.Some of us prefer person-first language, e.g. "I have autism."But according to countless polls, the vast majority of us prefer identity first language. "I am autistic."But neurotypicals keep quote

Disposable Human

haveachattabs

Lets talk a bit about abolition practice in schools & why it is necessary.I’ll start with an example: Yesterday my son received 2 Friday detentions (ugh I know, right)… Here

Claire

Miandre

People often joke about “chai tea” and “naan bread” being tautological but this isn’t actually how borrowing works. Chai doesn’t mean tea and naan doesn’t mean bread in English. We

The Distributist

DataDistribute

I find increasingly that the division between Red and Blue America has a distinct linguistic quality; less in accent and more in rhetoric, labels, and framing. (1/7) I know conservatives

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cauvery2vaigai

THREAD: In yesterday's evening episode telecast of #Ramayana #RamayanOnDDNational one segment was about Shri Ram explaining the greatness of Sage Agasthya including how Lord Shiva taught Tamil to the great

Angelica Oung

AngelicaOung

Bittersweet moment: I've been too busy for language coaching for a while but today was the day I had my last session with my last student. So let's take the

Ol’ Last Real Rez Dog

DeadDogLake

English language is a transaction language. It’s a trade language and no longer has a land to call it own. It’s a drifter language. Don’t get me wrong, there are