#Language

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yoavgo

Start-of-semester thoughts:Teaching NLP is quite depressing, and I don't know how to do it well. I am torn between the two perspectives:1) Teach the interesting problems. Why language is interesting.

Sami Schalk

DrSamiSchalk

#thread on ableist language: I’ve seen a lot of Madison folks using ableist language to talk about the #pandemic protesters & I want to talk briefly about why this language

jay Dragon 🌄

jdragsky

No one's talking about this, so I decided I wanted to at 4am! Here's a thread on languages of care, emotional support in found families, the quarantine, and why you

Dr Michelle St Clair

michellestclair

right -we're back now. next up is Charles Hulme to discuss early language development. going to tweet in a thread this time. ah - always forget something! #NAPLIC21 Oral language

Alex Zelasi

AZelasi

I may be kicked out of Britain for saying this, but:- colour doesn't need the 'u'- '-zation' is often more accurate than '-sation'- 'plow' is a better spelling than 'plough'

Adam Hudson

adamhudson5

Black nationalism is the language of the Black masses and Black working-class. Any form of Black radicalism has to incorporate some form of Black nationalism. This is important to consider

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RiotLinguist

I am again working on research abt n*zi propaganda, and I am stricken by the (esp. in pre-1933 texts) pervasive appropriation & twisting of the language of socialist critique and

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GunduHuDuGa

#Language Silence is a tool I employ to avoid creating conflict, but not for the lack of an opinion. However, at times, one needs to voice their opinion, especially when

Eb

EbThen

CN: ableist slurKeep seeing the ableist slur "stupid" on this website today.I don't need you to tell me you're trying to stop using ableist language but it's hard.I know it's

Yamiche Alcindor

Yamiche

Jerome Adams, U.S. Surgeon General, tells black people, Latinos and other ppl of color to avoid alcohol and drugs and adds: "Do it for your abuela, do it for your

Melanie Liu

MelCLiu

This thread so succinctly explains how I feel about the “cool” culture that permeates the internet. What I do think this thread misses out on is the influence of AAVE

bsletten

bsletten

“Going native” in the Apple Silicon transition is possible because of their conversion to an LLVM-based toolchain over the previous decade. They also use it for reusing shaders on hardware

Ryan Knight 🌹

ProudSocialist

There is a big disconnect between who the Democratic party says it is and who it really is. Corporate Democrats who still control the party co-opt the language of the

Your Friendly Butch Anarchist

butchanarchy

Accepting social consequences and boundaries in response to harm done is literally integral to accountability, not counter to it. Idk where tf some of y’all are coming from comparing that

𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒖.

mishulovessana

You know what pisses me off. It's 2020 and we still have people who judge others personality based on a language instead of aptitude. Many cricketers, soldiers, chefs, athletes, politicians

Lindsay⁷

fragmentidea

What Namjoon is talking about here is essentially neural plasticity and synaptic pruning. In November of 2020, the Journal of Neuroscience published this study that took a look at brain