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Hannah Ryan
HannahKJRyan
I will never use this kind of patronising, regressive language when talking to patients about their bodies. I hope my colleagues in healthcare feel the same way. Naming the sexed
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David Nakamura
DavidNakamura
NEW: ‘Lock her up’ ‘Build the wall!’ ‘Send them back!’ And now ‘Kung flu!’ emerges as new rallying cry for Trump supporters as president employs racist language to juice base
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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,
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Lydia Namubiru
namlyd
It would be one thing for people to insult you after learning that you don't speak it. But if you live in a place where Luganda is the local language,
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Homero Murzi
hmurzi
For people advising, teaching, or interacting with international students in the U.S., I think is important we keep in mind a couple of things. 1. No matter how many times
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Gearóidín McEvoy
GaRoDean
Every time we tweet about Peig there’s some bright spark in the comments telling you it wasn’t Peig, it was the bad teachers and every time we tweet about the
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fIrtymai
how to stay dedicated while learning a new language • • • a thread >> before i go into this thread please know that you should eat and drink well
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Sari Tjakrawiralaksana
sari_tjakra
Majority of Indonesians are polyglot. Born into families speaking local languages that become their mother tongue, learning Indonesian at school, reciting prayers and the holy book in Arabic, and later
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Nicky MacCrimmon
nickyrannoch
Will I be spending lock down Saturday making a thread of every reference to the state of Gaelic in Perthshire parishes from the Old Statistical Account 1791-99? In the meantime
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Zoe York
ZoeYorkWrites
Let's do this again. My unsolicited 2 cents: there are a lot of people who are looking for books that do not have sexual content or filthy language in them.
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Innocent Dlamini
lilangeni
Yesterday I read a lot on the issue of native language usage on our #TiniTwitter. I do believe major factors were missed. My thoughts here in a #TiniSundayThread Your thoughts
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Ol’ Last Real Rez Dog
DeadDogLake
Shit cousins, all jokes aside, I’m going to share a tiny thread about how lonely and sad languages revitalization is. I’m just really sad right now and going to tweet
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Bozorgmehr
narangestan
Ossetians are an Iranic ethnic group in the Caucasus. They refer to themselves as “Iron.” Ossetian is the sole survivor of the Scythian language branch as a NE Iranian language,
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Adetutu Balogun, MBA
Tutsy22
Part 1During a press briefing of Presidential Task Force on covid19. The Minister of Aviation @hadisirika addresses the nation in Hausa language... Part 2 A reporter of Igbo service of
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Jecon Dreisbach
jecondraysbak
Is Bisaya a language? No. It is a language family consisting of languages spoken in the Visayas and northern Mindanao. Bisayan languages include Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Waray, Karay-a, and Surigaonon, among
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talia
meIankolia
from the careless language of sexual violence (2011) by roxane gay "There is comfort, I suppose, to consuming violence contained in 90-minute segments and muted by commercials for household goods..."
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