#Language

Tobias Menely🌎🌍🌏

TobiasMenely

my critical theory students relying on the audio transcription may be getting the best version of the class audio transcription #2 #3 #4 as I've pointed out, critical theory often

Charlie Evans

charlie_sci

There's more and more research on detransition, desisting, disidentifying and reidentifying. This is great, but without a discussion on language I think we're going to get ourselves in a pickle.

Julian 🏳️‍🌈

julianrunes

For those who are unaware, pedophiles are using softer language to normalize their relationship with minors as academic and thus acceptable. They are calling themselves MAPS (Minor Attracted Person). Make

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zei_squirrel

this is a video made by the CIA as part of their recruitment drive. look at the language used, and the t-shirt she's wearing: a literal raised fist. you can't

Matt Parsons 🏳️‍🌈

mattoflambda

The most important thing I learned in college for programming was from a linguistics classWe took ordinary language and parsed it into syntax treesStart with the words in a sentence,

Aliah ✨

AliahLuck

there has to be a linguistic reason for this. I will find it.https://twitter.com/BlairImani/status/1313305773401731072 I blame Latin. Let me find out why these losers didn't just call it octem. Okay wow.

i tried to give up sugar and i failed

teateateahoney

The "don't learn languages, it's cultural appropriation!" folk are some of the most disrespectful ppl I've seen, to any culture.They're implying that ppl of non-English-speaking countries all have to learn

kaia🧸

kaiamillerr

cute things deniz says bc english isn’t his first language: a thread i asked him if i’d told him about my reoccurring dream and he said “oh yeah, the one

Scaachi

Scaachi

i've worked very hard to not think about joossie s1gnool ever, ever at all. but, my niece came out in her late teens, and ever since, she's been so anxious

JD Flynn

jdflynn

So yesterday Cardinal Cupich proposed to add a paragraph from Pope Francis’ Gaudete et Exsultate to a letter from the USCCB.Gomez disagreed, b/c he said he was trying to keep

Nag J

Nag_J1

The वादविवाद (Debate) वदति (talk) etc of Sanskrit is from Dravidian word vadar, which means chatter. I’m finding many such Dravidian roots in Sanskrit & starting to wonder if Sanskrit

Ben Braithwaite

benbraithwaite

It's been good to see more and more linguists recently pointing out how deeply embedded modality chauvinism still is in our field, where language is often used to mean 'spoken

Comorienne 🇰🇲

_ShamGod

The wildest part about the "let people enjoy things" retort is that...acknowledging the truth of a situation and applying the proper language to it shouldn't cause this much defensiveness. You

আকাশনীল make Bengali classical language

Kakaababu

That's not true as far as Bengal is concerned, everyone is welcome here irrespective of their ethnicity, language, caste. Till today 100s of poor Biharis are coming to Bengal for

Friend Cluster

WynneCluster

A quick note on the language we use to discuss bigots:I have acrophobia. When I'm near a ledge ofr sheer drop, I physically cannot help but panic and become stressed.There's

ArachnoVolt (A-rack-no-Volt)

ArachnoVolt

If anyone ever says rioting is pointless, show them this. We've tried to be peaceful, we've tried to be kind, we tried to protest. But they won't fucking listen.https://twitter.com/sweeeetdee_/status/1267319103167107072 There