#Dialects

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

Let me show you why this white-centric hyperbolic fear is mired in white supremacy.First of all, the notion that being more inclusive renders black people as “other” fails to recognize

Rory Turnbull

_roryturnbull

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

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

URSULA Edelheid (no, that's not my real name)

dietweeterei

1/ Today, I finally present to you: differential object marking (DOM) in Balto-Finnic languages (also called Finnic or (Balto-)Fennic). In these languages, object marking is used to express a bunch

Ma’at

surimana16

Ancient Egyptian Writing. In the last part of the Predynastic Period, 6000-3150 BCE Anc. Egyptians began to use symbols to represent simple concepts limited to notations to identify a person,

foone

Foone

oh hey, great.it's fun when you decide to make a hilarious meme idea you just had and you find out that the first documented instance of it being used as

BABYBOSS

tejumania

Thread of Yoruba women from each state according to their rating. Pick your poison wisely. 1. Osun2. Ogun3. Ekiti4. Oyo5. Ondo6. Lagos7. Kwara 1. Osun ladies are BEAUTIFUL, smart, hardworking,

A.Z. Foreman

azforeman

Thread about how the soundscape of late Renaissance French was a lot more varied than the linear handbook summaries lead one to imagine. With audio and visuals . Wanting to

Sh. Ammar Khatib

ShAmmarKhatib1

@PhDniX @AbuSafiyah1 @AverageJoeHamON @JosephLumbard @pillar6741 I was asked for my feedback on the issue of the preservation of the Qur'an. First, I purposely don't comment on everything I read or

Adrianna Tan 陈丽珍

skinnylatte

I will now attempt to write a thread of the food that has defined Singapore elections: In 2006, ‘mee siam mai hum’ and ‘bak chor mee mai ter kwa’. We

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asideoftrashpl1

As Chinese fandoms begin to take off on twt, I feel there’s a growing problem where non-Chinese people take a single influential person as the sole authority on Chinese culture,

Vasilis C. Onwuaduegbo

VCOnwuaduegbo

#SomeThoughts:I think about colonization and slavery a lot and it is obvious that there is more to meet the eye. Popular discourse around these institutions have made it literally black

Joe McVeigh

EvilJoeMcVeigh

I want to add some linguistic resources to this. Linguists have been doing the work to explain what's going on here. I'll focus on vocal fry here, but get into

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spammkin

✡︎ Dutch Jewry ✡︎A thread on the history of Dutch Jews because I’m bored and I am Dutch Jew. ✡︎ ORIGINS ✡︎It’s speculated the earliest Jews arrived in the Low

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[THREAD: URDU CHAUVINISM]1/51By the end of the 10th century AD, Śauraseni Prakrit (a vernacular derivative of Classical Sanskrit) had started corrupting into regional dialects like Braj Bhasha, Awadhi, and Dehlavi.

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amwhippedafbro

BANGS AT YOUR DOOR OKAY HEAr ME OUT BKDK WHERE RICH BOI CEO BKG IS GETTING MARRIED TO SOME EXTRA BCOS HIS MOTHER SAID SO and THEY WOULD DO IT