#Languages

Okay, so I’ve seen that Ben Shapiro video about “ackshually people want to be non-white now” has people citing examples about minorities having to “speak white” as a counter-argument. And
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when bakugou and kirishima first hold hands - without /any/ intention, except for wanting that contact: not when kirishima had soared through nights skies with villains crawling bellow, but with
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THREAD: Latvian grammatical articles, Bible translation, and the divine name (a bit of an eclectic posting)Here is a map of national European languages classed according to usage of grammatical articles.
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The Romans were not afraid of many things, but the magic of the Celts was enough to terrify them. The best, biggest, most organized army in the world at that
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Check out the guidance led by @tracyepton and the Behavioural Science and Disease Prevention Taskforce, on optimising vaccine uptake for COVID-19. UPTAKE should be considered (see thread for details) 1/7https://www.bps.org.uk/news-and-polic
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thread of questions to do when you’re bored 1. what’s your name 2. how old are you 3. when’s your birthday 4. what are your pronouns 5. when did you
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This video circulating the other day really took me back to my own brief time in the Pamirs. I also gleaned a few details which inspired me as to the
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Kids, if you're going to come for a doctor with actual academic and professional experience in medicine, over a medical issue, while you're not a medical practitioner yourself, make sure
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Twice in recent reviews of books that take the sea and coast as their subject, one of which was my own, I have read critical comments on the style of
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Why @github codespaces is a big deal.https://github.com/features/codespaces/ A thread 1/ Faster setup. No more endless debugging to get started on a new (existing) project or environment. 2/ True remote
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I could never, know this feeling, nope, not me(I am good at reading languages, mediocre at writing, ok at listening, crap at speaking)Basically I can translate a Nizami poem and
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Musings about developing in Rust:When people start in Rust, they often get into 'fights' with the borrow checker. This can be a source of much frustration, especially for experienced devs
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OK, so many of you liked this we're going to do a HUGE thread of great works in translation from small presses. Some new, some older, some coming out later
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WHY ‘THE 100’ IS AMAZING;a thread the character development is insane. so many of the most annoying/hated characters got arcs that realistically showed how people change and are now fan
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in honor of today being one month on anitwt and getting 400 moots imma do this again bc it's been ages,,,, im begging yall not to make me speak in
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[thread]I can think of only country whose flag change since @Unicode introduced flags around 2008: Burma in 2010. This is probably borderline, because back in 2008 only a few flags
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