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Sāmapriya Vasu | ḫa-am-ap-ri-a-ma-u-iš
samopriya
#IndoAryan faunal etymology!#Khowar òhc /ôht͡s/ ('bear'), loan from a #Nuristani language like #Waigali.Although cognate to #Sanskrit ŕ̥kṣaḣ, the Khowar form is probably not descended from it, i.e., not native to
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Angelique|PinkPunk07
ANGIEisLuvsick
What if #Blackpink debuted with 7 members??A thread; Kim Jisoo1995Position: Main Visual, Lead vocalist, Sub-Rapper, Fake maknae, Oldest, Actress, ModelLanguages: Korean, Chinese-Mandarinnationality: Korean Hannah Jang1996Position: Lead dan
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Calvin
calvinsaysfuck
-why neopronouns don’t work- Neopronouns are a pronoun that is not he, she, or they. They can be xe, aer, ey, even puppy. These obviously do not work in language
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Surrey SLL PGRs
Surrey_SLLPGRs
Crossing Boundaries Panel Showcase Today we will be giving you a sneak peek into Panel One: Crossing Boundaries as Creative Writers. Register and see the full schedule here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crossing-boundaries-surrey-literatu
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words mean things
a_busy_woman
honestly apologizing is a skill few people have cultivated 1. Do not minimize your culpability or your impact“Sorry if I hurt you” WRONG “I know I hurt you but that
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Dr. Johanna Mellis
JohannaMellis
One thing I’ve talked about in my research, here on Twitter, and with @EndofSportPod is the pro-American (nationalist), triumphalist bent to Cold War sport history. It may also characterize other
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Joe Bassey
Joe__Bassey
The oldest written scripts ever discovered is the Proto Saharan, found by the Kharga oasis in what was known as Nubia in present day Sudan, so called by archaeologists. It
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Gina Anne Tam 譚吉娜
DGTam86
One of the things I write about in Dialect and Nationalism in China is how designating particular local languages as "dialects" has much more to do with the construction and
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Orel Beilinson
BeilinsonOrel
The question I hate the most is "what language should I study". Here is a short thread on why choosing a "profitable/worthwhile" language to learn is a mistake and won't
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Chandrahaas Uniyal
taru_uniyal
Have you heard about #Garhwali?Sambit's tweet is much more sinister and disgusting than it seems.A short thread. 1/6 2/6Apart from #Hindi, the two most spoken languages in #Uttarakhand(UA) are Garhwali(2.5
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サナペン👶🏻🍭
sanapen2912
Translation is not easy, the difficult part in translation is different for those who are native JP/KR and those who are native EN.Misunderstandings do happen even when speaker/listener are both
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fag jacket
kez_dispenserrr
Fun linguistics fact! MOST words don't have a perfect direct translation into other languages! The small differences in culture cause small differences in meaning with even super common wordshttps://twitter.com/Locksneedfartin/status/13
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Bovine Blimp
comradebunni
seeing some "english is the hardest language to learn" discourse on the tl so ill add my grain of salt, as someone who's finishing up a degree majoring in english
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Papa Shark 🦈
wabbster
At first glance, this looks like a ridiculous demand. It's probably because you're only looking at the second option. That's because you're conditioned to think Hindi signs deserve to be
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rui ❀ 心³
xincube
lrt that's why i got so pissed off about the 2ha tl drama omfg. i'm a native speaker (sort of hksdf) but even with so many years of learning chinese
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Lauren Gawne
superlinguo
Signed language linguistics twitter - I'm trying to find any examples of dissimilation in phonological processes, if you know any examples from any signed language? I've got examples of the
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