#Language

Lydia X. Z. Brown

autistichoya

Over the last 6 or 7 years since I first posted the original Ableist Language Glossary on my blog, I've received literally thousands of comments on it in every form.Fan

#1⃣9⃣!!!🇲🇾

SiriuslyCold

For the first time in history, a book is written to reveal that the language of the Qur'an is Aramaic, not Arabic. The Aramaic language of the Qur'an renders interpretations

Suzi McGowan

suzi_mcgowan

Ok so, half my family are #Welsh, I’ve been touristing in #Wales most of my life and have now moved here & desperate to learn the beautiful language. I’m completely

Saɓɛ́lo -- Ukungazi kufana lokufa.

sabelonow

Probably the biggest project in African NLP is language translation. Yet we don't have a free publicly available and comprehensive dictionary for the largest language in the 2nd largest economy

Corey Alexander-on hiatus

TGStoneButch

Been thinking about this today.https://twitter.com/yrbroshane/status/1264922915927097344 I get chronic migraines & they impact me similarly. My cognitive capacity is limited, I cannot think clearly, have difficuly accessing language, pr

Keith Ammann

KeithAmmann

Command is an interesting #DnD spell. It may be the only one in the game that varies in power according to which language you're playing the game in. In English,

Òrìsà Priestess

Ifawemimo

The translation of the "Ọ̀run" as "heaven" is totally misleading. It turns an indigenous Yoruba concept upsidedown into an Abrahamic tradition of "heaven" and "hell." The Christians and Moslems attempted

Anton "Vaccinated" Hand

AntonHand

I get the need for inclusive language, but 'BIRTHING PERSON' (currently trending on twitter), sounds like a term aliens abducting us for our fluids might use. I know as merely

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aa5iyah_

No, Afrikaans is a creole (hmm also anti-language) made up of dutch, african and asian languages and was started by slaves. The first Afrikaans texts were written in Arabic and

Sergej Sumlenny

sumlenny

Ukrainians in Russian empire and in the Soviet Union were blacks in the racist America. They were claimed to be "dirty", "stupid", their language was mocked, their national cloth and

Christian Lambino

jcmlambino12

Why the term "Filipinx" might problematic as a linguistics major from a sociolinguistic perspective; a threadhttps://twitter.com/PhilippineStar/status/1301731713979047936 The issue comes here: @Dictionarycom now thinks that Filipi

socially distant through Schirr determination

KikiSchirr

Learning a language in the USA:* Many people take great pride in only speaking English* Foreign language education usually begins around 13, if then* Gifted students are often steered toward

D K Hari & Hema

Bharathgyan

#Myth : India has developed because of #English#Reality : Only 4 percent of the people in the world know English. The Japanese, Germans, French, Spanish, Chinese, Russian all speak their

silk sonic slut

AviceBennerCho

Hi, scholar in education policy here. Let's talk about your erroneous framing of the problem. 1/https://twitter.com/Our_DA/status/1384437090948112384 Instruction in a language is not 'banned' just because it has been identified

Rishabh singh

rish1281

The Three Languages of Politics by Arnold Kling Humans evolved to send and receive signals that enable us to recognize people we can trust. One of the most powerful signals

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AtaKufr

MatesThis is IMPORTANTAll this while did you ever wonder, why MUSLIM brethren from Arabs don't show empathy on you. It is coz the language u use. Arabs are more affectionate