#Languages

A.Z. Foreman

azforeman

Four written languages are attested from the Ancient Roman city of Pompeii. The first three are no surprise: Latin, Greek and Oscan. The fourth is (wait for it...) Arabic*. Specifically

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makadiwata

Tulog na ba ang mga ka-Pacific Islander? Dahil hindi mamatay-matay ang isyu na ito, gawan natin ng thread. (English ahead.) Are Filipinos Pacific Islander? NO. It's easy to mistake Pacific

OpenCage Geocoder 👉🌍

OpenCage

Our geocoding API is built on OpenStreetMap, a global crowdsourced project. Sometimes people ask us how we keep up with everything happing across the OSM world.A thread 2/ It's

Shivangi Shankar

_youhavemyword_

In my first year, I wouldn't speak in Hindi because I assumed that English would be more commonly understood. That was misconstrued as "attitude". I'd been here for all of

Riccardo Fusaroli

fusaroli

Thread on the challenges of the lack of large good quality multi site datasets, and the promises of transfer learning and ensemble models, spurred by our new paper: "A Machine

theSherwood

adamthesherwood

#roamcult, @RoamResearch, & @Conaw, have you seen @codexeditor 's SPEEDy editor? This thing is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G8YmRJ__Q0&feature=emb_logo . There's an interesting conversation to be had here regard

agamshastra

truejainology

Inscriptions in Tamil Brahmi at Perumalmalai in Tamil Nadu.The inscription are dated to 3rd century BCE or older, this is amongst the oldest decipherable writings anywhere in IndiaThe inscriptions say

72 Virgin Silverback Gorillas at peak adolescense

JohnWiseman17

@mhenrylaw1@DissidentRabbi@e2pilot@jhirsch99@2PT0TURBOI'm always a bit skeptical when even my fellow Jews quote the Talmud to me in order to bolster any point. (we Jews often argue with each other on just

Crispian Wilson FCDO 🇬🇧

CrispianWFCDO

What's it like to learn a language intensively when you're dyslexic? I'm about a third of the way through my initial language learning journey with Polish, so I thought the

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vilvidus

maybe you cant tell from how i drink 18l of pepsi every week and am well on my way to fail school but i have kinda given up on having

Rose Kalemba

RoseKalemba

Thread about the http://TraffickingHub.com petition & the group behind it: So I’ve seen a lot of people trying to discredit not only the whole Trafficking Hub movement against PornHub but

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HannibalsTeacup

why thai is one of the hardest languages to learn: a thread omg look at all these alphabets & vowels omg they are devided into 3 groups and each group

WikiVictorian

wikivictorian

Edith Lambelle Langerfeld (1883-1968), mostly known as La Sylphe, was an exotic American dancer who became a sensation while performing at the Folies Bergère in the 1890s. Langerfeld was taken

Gillian Smith

gillianmsmith

Wrong things that I learned as an undergraduate in computer science, either explicitly in courses or implicitly through its culture (or both!), that I have had to unlearn over the

William Redding

dlockholmes_

I can’t stress enough how irritated I get when I learn a friend has allowed me to call them a name that is not THEIR name because “it’s easier for

Gretchen McCulloch

GretchenAMcC

it has come to my attention that the chinese translation of Häagen-Dazs ALSO has a spurious umlaut on ithttps://stumpyjoepete.tumblr.com/post/181070403398/i-shit-you-not-the-%E5%93%88-ha-in-h%C3%A4agen-dazs-has-a i'm glad to see that H