#Languages

you can’t shame people into learning their mother tongue bc many immigrant parents didn’t speak to their children in their mothertongue because they were misinformed about the effects it would
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German and English words are usually pretty similar. Maus~mouse, Milch~milk, Wasser~water, sechs~six, Vater~father. But the German word for horse, "Pferd", is nothing like English. What happened? A thread. /1 English
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yaar but on a serious note I wish my urdu was better, and I could speak punjabi confidently. wish i could indulge in the literature of my region despite its
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Many of you have no doubt heard of the recent bourach about the Scots Wikipedia. The actions of one editor have been described as doing "more damage to the Scots
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Thread: (I’m talking personally, ***not as a therapist*** here). For someone into relationship anarchy, this distinction doesn’t really exist for me.https://twitter.com/theafrolegalise/status/1263939163063230466 I feel romantically towa
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i once made an (ongoing) thread informing people of what is going on in mexico w femicides, it was translated to three different languages and it was posted through different
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I've decided to start a thread collating all the translated material I find that's related to #COVID19 to make it easier for anyone looking for these resources. If you find
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A lot of people I know say I should be on TV. I want to have my own TV show that's like Dirty Jobs but I do other people's STEM
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Since @AccessWGBH produce the first audio described movies in the early '90s there have literally been thousands of titles described. a vast majority of these titles are on streaming services
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Since the Jazz are in a slump I'm officially starting my Rudy Gobert 2021 to the Raptors propaganda campaign. They say the Raptors cannot attract American free agents. I don't
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I have learned a lot of programming languages and techniques over the last 40 years or so, but it’s become almost impossible to learn how to make things with computers,
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THREAD: Here’s an inspiring story for your Thanksgiving morning... with a big surprise ending! We start with an undocumented immigrant from Colombia who entered the US when he was just
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“Priests who celebrate the ordinary form hate Latin, tradition, don’t know how to preach/teach the hard truths, only care about their own self-image”For some reason this is the week people
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why do i continue to see woke muslims talking about imperialism, genocide, ethnic cleansing, slavery and cultural appropriation as if Islam isn't the blueprint when it comes to it. Make
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[Thread] So, let's have a little talk about the significance of Pierre Trudeau's "middle finger salute" and Alberta politics. /1 It seems that even 40 odd years on, there are
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"Entmoot" by @larihuttunen. https://photography.huttu.net/pics/010849529-entmoot #fantasy #lotr #lordoftherings #ents #treeshepherds #limousin #france #blackandwhite #monochrome #tolkien #entmoot If you haven’t guessed, I’m a
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