#Lexicon

Jeannette Ng 吳志麗

jeannette_ng

notable thread, especially as I've noticed dramas like The Untamed are growing in popularity with white audienceshttps://twitter.com/bihualian/status/1297266701038497796 I genuinely think the ability to find representation that your own

landoback

landonjumpoff

I just learned about this and *deep inhale* The Hawaiian shirt and the term “Big Luau” are being appropriated by an armed militia white supremacist movement that codes the coming

Leah Eff

9BillionTigers

lesbians gatekeeping "femme" from trans women is such a drag man lesbians irl: my best friends, actual chillest, only girls who didn't make things weird when I was a kid,

Jessica Price

Delafina777

if your pastor is telling you a Hebrew word has a single English meaning, they're almost certainly lying to you. (A thread.)https://twitter.com/ashleymeaster/status/1253400802305155072 (On one hand, yes, do your own research.

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Kabelo_SM

Phew. I want to thread about this because I might write something on it later. For some time I’ve been mulling over writing letters to my nephews, especially B., the

big phd energy

loltistic

This white woman said to me that the late recording artist Prince is “her boy.” I said “please no, you don’t understand the implications of that phrase.” She said “no

Dee, the Weaver in Green (they/them)

DeePennyway

Ask your players' permission before you do something to their characters. Not even talking about sexual violence here. You can and should do it with physical combat violence too. Make

Kautuk Nasit

kautuknasit

To all the #hustlers, the halfwit #millennials, and ugly faced disinforming secular #bigots. (1/n) Still, the majority of the miserable #fraternity can’t fathom that #ArnabGoswami is not only an #editor

Planetary Polymath Emily Lakdawalla

elakdawalla

For love of all that is holy STOP USING "THE MONEY SHOT" TO DESCRIBE IMAGES YOU LIKE please men dear god I'm getting a lot of replies to this that

The Other Box

_TheOtherBox

We're continuing our #DiversityDictionary series with coronavirus-specific terms. There's so much new lexicon entering our everyday language, that it can be hard to keep track. Prior to the pandemic, many

Hanna Seariac

HannaSeariac

Thread on learning Biblical Hebrew and New Testament for Latter-day Saints :) Learning an ancient language can be hard! Here's my advice: For Biblical Hebrew, I recommend that you buy

Doctor B

TheeDoctorB

It's once again time for my annual rant about the holidays and the complex feelings they bring up for so many. [THREAD] Even for folks in a great headspace, the

Nanjala Nyabola

Nanjala1

I've written this in a paywalled thing but in the context of the debate on the TL today: the generational marker for millenials in Africa is not avocado toast or

Jay Woodruff 🥄 #ODSPoverty #E2821

Stray_Inc

Can anyone in Canadian media explain why the words "ableism" and "ableist" are not part of their lexicon?Racism and racist as well as sexism and sexist to give the true

John Horgan

Drjohnhorgan

1/n Very short thread: Research on #Incel activity is well underway. A lot of work in the pipeline, and already high quality, data-driven published research out there if you care

Patrick McKenzie

patio11

I'm a linguistic descriptivist not a prescriptivist, but I lament how "front running" has been in the popular lexicon reinterpreted to mean "anticipating someone's future action and acting before it