#Dialect

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Lizruelle

I know absolutely nothing about it, but there is a show on Netflix called Outer Banks. And, despite not ever seeing a second of the show, I believe it has

Berina

anirebee

A friend asked me why Bosnians sometimes get offended when people claim we speak the same language as Serbs and Croats and are just a dialect of Serbo-Croatian. I’m no

Jon Smith

jonrandellsmith

This list is probably a joke but it’s a great example of a real pet peeve, i.e. judgment about language, accents, etc.I’m a prof. linguist – that’s not an argument,

Śrīkānta

shrikanth_krish

On the occasion of "Hindi Divas", it is worth our while to reflect on this great but underrated languageAnd also reflect on which variant of Hindi do we wish to

بسنت عماد الدين عبدالمنعم محمود مطر

Pacinthe

An Uber canceled on me yesterday while I was already late, in peak rush hour traffic. Hopped in a cab instead. The news was on, and the driver scoffed at

Mary Parks

maryparks

.@tedlouie pointed me to this post on in-home non-cloud voice control: http://interconnected.org/home/2020/05/26/voice. It starts with “Why can’t I point at a lamp and say ‘on’ and the light come on?”

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jeegaram1996

A lot of people don't realize that Black English (BE) actually shares a lot of similar grammatical structures to "prestigious" languages. So, here's my 87590th thread on AAVE (African American Vernacular

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ineffableomens

My brain short-circuited with this Tumblr post, so let’s talk about what language Aziraphale and Crowley speak TO EACH OTHER, a thread [1/x] I always thought that Aziraphale and Crowley

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

nntaleb

101 BS THINGS TAUGHT TO STUDENTS, 1That correlation is a measure of relationship betw 2 variables. It is very rarely so.Few understand how correlation requires 1) no subsampling, 2) strict

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oranicuhh

AAVE is not stan language or internet culture. y’all just found out about it and only hear it on the internet cuz you’re not around niggas in real life. seeing

Michael Erard

michaelerard

Writing advice in most books are like fingernails on chalkboards to me. A batch of te-rendered juicy bits from Williams, Strunk & White, & Zinsser. 1) They usually don’t acknowledge

Kory Stamper

KoryStamper

"The microphone on the Amazon Halo Band isn’t meant for voice commands; instead it listens to your voice and reports back on what it believes your emotional state was throughout

Rawen

Raoine_

A thread on Tamazight words that are used in Tunisian dialect To start with , Tatunsit is the Tunisian Tamazight language that’s spoken in Tunisia so if you want

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cnlefits

i do get ur point but i disagree with this whole thread. these expressions can be used freely by other people and as a fellow bisaya, its vv wrong to

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holyboptism

just want to remind assyrians that ridiculuing or judging other assyrians, notably chaldean catholics in iraq, for being “arabised”, is shaming them for their own oppression. the aggressive arabisation/kurdification of

Schmuck

DrSchmuck

Thoughts on #NEP2020Most of our mother tongues have dialects which give away our roots: our caste.English doesn't—it acts as a leveller of sorts, which is why the powers that be