#Dialect

samson 🇯🇲 🇺🇸 🇹🇹

bisged

okay so this person went on private but i'm able to still get a screenshot of the tweet, probably bc i'm on cache or somethingBut as a black caribbean american

Shiv Sunny

shivsunny

Meena Devi's son had cancer & died in a subway outside AIIMS last Friday. She couldn't take her son's body to their home in Banka in Bihar.Turns out, my naani-ghar

L Break Into Program

BreakIntoProg

This brought to my attention by @FREEZE64UK earlier today - a version of Sinclair BASIC on the C64 by Whitby Computers circa 1985. It's more than a port; this is

Vic

lxthal

The fact that Justice Thomas grew up in deep poverty in Southern Georgia, spoke a slave dialect until the age of 6, (hence why he rarely speaks from the bench),

alyssa. nsfr.

Iovelymedicine

i’m gonna do a dialect quiz asf to see if y’all say some weird stuff so it’s gonna be in the poll below how would you address a group of

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TanveerJeewa

I have used this lockdown period to reread some old "classics". As I was reading Black Skin White Masks by Frantz Fanon, his chapter about language, especially in the context

Griffin Rice

GriffinRice1

Trump took the class out of America. He divided it and turned families, friends, and neighbors against each other. He used his propaganda against the “radical left” as if they

Tara Williamson

WilliamsonTara

I want to talk about language learning for a bit. It’s always been important to me and something I feel a calling to. But, it’s also very personal and vulnerable.

Lili 💓🥺

Lilishiiuwu

OKAY STORY TIMEEEEEEE THIS TIME ITS ABOUT MY CRUSH Okay so, we used to live in montalban but there were rumors about the earthquake, we had to move to Cebu.

xu ziwei updates! 🐧

calpicowater

a thread of all of xu ziwei's introductions during qcyn3 media interview day "hello, i am a trainee from avex, my name is xu ziwei" initial performance (慢冷)"hello teachers,

The Catholic Linguist

Vlinguist

You’ll see it in the headlines from time to time. It’s usually some variant of “which language did #Jesus speak?” or “is ISIS exterminating the language of Jesus?”. Scholars –

Dr Emily Wilson

EmilyRCWilson

A question that is always present, for any translator: What is stylistic "equivalence"? Is "equivalence" even the right term? Translation Studies over the past few decades has taught us a

Morgan Al-Moor

MorganAlMoor

From someone who worked as a translator for a while, here are some Arabic words & concepts that are drastically misused, particularly in writing. Thread As a baseline: An Arab

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BiruktiWrites

I took a really bomb creative writing workshop this semester and here are 8 things I learned that I didn’t know before: 1) “Know the iceberg; write the tip.”You should

A.Z. Foreman

azforeman

When people ask "when did people stop speaking Latin as a native language?" I like to answer: “Well, it was still spoken into the 9th century, though at that point

Stan Dupp

SDupp

Thread Please use the #coronarhyme if you join in or retweet. In 100 years time children in playgrounds could be singing rhymes, bouncing balls against a wall, skipping or