#Linguist

Starr103.5FM

Starr1035Fm

But what's happening in Banda is that some men dressed in military attire came into the community and started harassing people. They stop people from registering and when we complain

Joshua Razorclaw 🦇

joshraclaw

I’ve seen multiple threads discussing the difference between “want” and “wanted” and it’s just linguist after linguist offering intuition about why this might be and what this might mean and

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pothwaripatwari

So I’ve been reading Biblical Hebrew and every once in a while I stumble across what seems like a congnate from Arabic (either from my limited study of Arabic or

Incunabula

incunabula

On October 7, 1992, an elderly man named Tevfik Esenç died in Turkey, and with him - on that day - died the Ubykh language. Once spoken by 50 000

Gretchen McCulloch

GretchenAMcC

As a linguist, waving is a brilliant solution to bridge the sudden disappearance at the end of a video call: esp in a group, when you can see everyone's waving,

Xalk

XalkXolc

We need new superlatives. We're wearing the old ones out.Seriously, if we look at evaluative adjectives (fine, okay, good, great, awesome, perfect), that's...approx. 6 levels of comparison, at base? Maybe

TranslationTalk / Robert

translationtalk

Let’s kick it all off with an icebreaker!I’m still fairly new to the profession so my early days of CV-prepping, website-building and client-hunting are still very fresh in my mind.

хиротя

sxjbgl

so i'm going to sleep right now bc I really tired ofc I didn't do anything but so i amand I don't know why i'm writing this text into English

vasundhara 👩‍💻🗣️🦆🏳️‍🌈

VasundharaNLP

Liking all the tweets of people who were blocked by peven stinker in a furious attempt to be cancelled by him asap, thereby making me officially a Cool Kid™ ok,

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,

Mehdi Hasan

mehdirhasan

"Failure to vote for Biden in a swing state amounts to voting for Trump."In an interview with me, Noam Chomsky compares the #NeverBiden ppl to Communists in the 1930s who

Danny Bate

DannyBate4

the Norman Conquest wasn't the only way Latin-derived words entered English - many were borrowed later, directly from Latinthis has led to numerous pairs of Latinate words, one taken directly,

Ahmaq e Nazaanاحمق نازاں ۔۔۔

StereoType420

I am afraid I don't agree with this.Personnel choices got nothing to do with racism.Its like of I am not comfortable with girls as my friends does that make me

Alon Lischinsky

alischinsky

This comment about #BlackInTheIvory was a chilling realisation, and it's even worse in LinguisticsAs a tiny beginning to the long task of offsetting that, here are 20 #BlackLinguists and language

Merch Gwarthus

punkistani93

Wales isn’t currently a colony. Calling Wales a colony right now when it is a beneficiary of colonisation of the 3rd world panders to historical revisionism of Welsh history for

True Indology

TIinExile

I cannot see what he wrote.That primate blocked me after I exposed his lies.If this rat is not afraid of the truth and does not fear getting exposed, I challenge