#Linguist

First keynote is Elżbieta Korolczuk on opposition to gender in academia and beyond. Looking forward to this. #kjønnsforskningNÅ Korolczuk, a sociologist, says that she thought resistance to gender was only
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It is really way past the time, the American left outgrow Chomsky. The latest truth out article was pretty bad in ways I can't even explain.https://truthout.org/articles/we-cant-let-covid-19-drive-us-into-authoritarianism/ It's the leftist ve
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"Hey, David, what about the 'x' in muxe'? Where did that come from? And what IS a muxe', anyway?" Glad you asked! Sit back, mi gente. Time to get our
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One little discussed aspect of the current “cancel culture” phenomenon in West and the cringeworthy displays of cowardice that it produced especially in academia is that it has revealed a
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Wow. That's such an incredible thing to read from someone I admire greatly. And I have to tell you--it's because of Rob Anderson and 11 other people that I feel
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one of my many roles is editor of the Forum for the journal TESOL Quarterly. i love how this role has allowed me to engage with different topics and to
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A lot of people have been asking me about this: after reviewing and analyzing the audio, it is my expert professional opinion that Mr. Floyd did *not* say "I ate
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1/ Today, I finally present to you: differential object marking (DOM) in Balto-Finnic languages (also called Finnic or (Balto-)Fennic). In these languages, object marking is used to express a bunch
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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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1) White Helmets ‘MI-6 Co-Founder’ Found Dead in TurkeyWhat has my interest in this article, is the connection to Chemonics, because I dug into them a bit over a month
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Neurodivergent folks who want to learn more about hidden meanings - tumblr is not a terribly reliable source, but you know what IS useful? Books by linguists! Linguists are often
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A thread. Why in the mainland, people use simplified Chinese rather than traditional ones.Simplified Chinese characters have a long history. Chinese characters changed from Oracle Bone Inscriptions and inscriptions to
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1) 'Here are three quite ordinary sentences, sentences which would not seem out of place in a politician's speech, a consultant's report or a daily newspaper. Sentence one: "Progress in
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1/ The following 15 threads will be for my English 102 class taken through Coastal Carolina University, located in Conway, SC. Engl102 focuses on composition & critical Reading, & for
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A lot of people don't realize that Black English (BE) actually shares a lot of similar grammatical structures to "prestigious" languages.  So, here's my 87590th thread on AAVE (African American Vernacular
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Today is the birth anniversary of iconic scientist Richard Feynman, if there was some one I would call a maverick, it is him. defied the stereotype of a scientist, being
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