#Language

francine j .harris

francinejharris

1/4 When 45 was first elected, I had several young female students who included “grab ‘em by the...etc.” in their poems. The conversation I wanted to have began with this

Chris Jones

clinpsychris

I use Twitter to learn and being exposed to succinct ideas while I was busy training as a clinical psychologist was invaluable. An area of deep contestation in mental health

🎃🔞spooky moony goblin boy VOTED 🔞💀

moonythejedi

hey witcher moots, let's have a chat. prostitution is a thing in the series. it's a thing in real life. sex workers are real people. when you're writing about this

vakibs

vakibs

I am thinking more and more these days that Sanskrit and Hindi need not be seen as two different languages,but as two different registers of a single language continuum.Other Indian

Luis Miguel Echegaray

lmechegaray

.@peacockTV's layout is solid. Crisp + Clean. I also appreciate the LATINO section and it's all Spanish content, which is naturally not a surprise given the fact it's there to

Erin Biba

erinbiba

There's also a broader problem w/language around illness.This idea that we're gonna "fight it" and we tell people "you're strong you're gonna tackle this" and that's just not how disease

ShamBOOlic Neutral 🎃👻

BradfemlyWalsh

Jk Rowling has written a book where a man dresses as a woman to kill people. The character is not trans. Every time a person says she's transphobic for this

alex

KingstonJancro

The reason I don’t like talking about cultural appropriation is that even that critical vocabulary is too entangled with the language of capital and property. There have to be (and

Joan. #FreeBorders

joanayma

Is anybody doing #DevOps in Spain who knows to code? It's frustrating to see there's no intention to know to code from coworkers, especially in a job where you do

Katelyn Beaty

KatelynBeaty

No matter how much I loathe someone's actions or ideas or how they've hurt others, I can't bring myself to say "that person's trash," because a very inconvenient but central

Maazị Ogbonnaya

maazi_ogbonnaya

I have seen people slapping themselves, knocking their heads to find Igbo words for:FacebookTwitterInstagramComputerWhatsAppWhen they are unable to do so, they will say that Igbo Language is incomplete. I read

Elad Gross 🇺🇸

BigElad

I disagree.Missouri, like every other state, and like the United States, counts every person. Representatives are supposed to be accessible to each one of us, regardless of our ability to

Spotted Toad

toad_spotted

The language of wokeness makes several simultaneous demands:a) minor cognitive hurdles in mastering the vocabularyb) emotional hurdles in overcoming embarrassment & humiliationc) still greater social obstacles in sacrificing the practic

Jason Millar

jasondmillar

On the subject of the right of words to have more than one politically correct meaning, I highly recommend getting access to the OED. This is often available with a

qnx

qnx111

I’m watching Masterchef AUS and I noticed some Malaysian Chinese on the show. This is a thread. Malaysian Chinese who emigrate to AUS, US and UK are ever willing to

Aravinda Priyadarshana 💮

actualaravinda

Who first came to this landmass which we call Sri Lanka today? Aryan Sinhalese, or Dravidian Tamils?Let me explain.Before the 6th century BCE, only the people of Australoid race lived