#Linguist

hek!

hekleri

I GIVE UP, I give in, I peer pressured myself into it, time to incriminate myself on the internet for 233 people to see ["like this tweet for an obscure

Ben Cartlidge

benjcartlidge

Grammatical gender, a thread. This has been going on a while, so I thought it worth articulating what I think and why. I respond to some of the earlier discussions,

Jay Rosen

jayrosen_nyu

Here is how the Los Angeles Times put it on July 14: “We shouldn’t rise to his bait, but how can we not? If we ignore him, we normalize his

corpus wife

catdya

belajar bahasa inggris lewat kebadutan teman2 kuliah aku di group chatkarena belajar vocab yang baru enaknya kalo bisa liat contoh penggunaannyaTHREAD TIME disclaimer(s):aku menggunakan approach deskriptivis, bukan perskriptivis. aku menjel

Helen Kord

mirabel_chan

I promise I'll actually read a book at some point, but how about we play a game?1 like= 1 romance novel I love, you know the drill(also can give specific

ˈlɪŋgwɪst 🦩

MiraLyana

I still remember the early months I was in Singapore. I kept having “whut?” moments when I engaged with my SG Malay colleagues. Some prominent linguistic features pertinent to Singaporean

Rachel Gutin 🏳️‍🌈

Rachel_Gutin

The sixth panel I attended at #ConZealand this year was “Infinite Entangled Futures - Indigenous Voices in Conversation,” with @ShiningComic, @RoanhorseBex, @understatesmen and @toniwaiaroha, moderated by @sloanesloane.This was a fascin

Gretchen McCulloch

GretchenAMcC

Let's say there's something you really really like, a book or movie or tv show or podcast or even just another twitter account And you don't think enough other people

ał u płpeł

zekhemolsun

Do you know Armenians?[Informative Thread] The first queen to rule alone in the Islamic World was Armenian, Shajar al-Durr. Taj Mahal was built for an Armenian, Mumtaz Mahal. Armenian merchants

Katrina Leonoudakis 👑 Context Queen

katrinaltrnsl8r

There's been a lot of discourse in the English-speaking anime world this week about slang appearing in English localizations.But how does slang end up in subtitles, dubs, or localized games,

Roderic Day

RodericDay

Chomsky: "The first thing I do in the morning is read The New York Times. It's the best newspaper in the world. You want some general sense of what's going

Joseph T Noony

JoeAgneya

Jesuits, 'soldiers of Christ', aren't your average priests. An order founded in 1540, it had great emphasis on scholarship, learning native languages and unorthodox approaches to missionary work. Pope Francis

Incunabula

incunabula

This is potentially a cultural tragedy happening as we watch in horror - I know this library quite well - if it has indeed been destroyed, the losses are incalculable,

gavv

smartandsane

Thread on what @Crunchyrollis doing to #nagatoro , one of the hottest shows out of japan is unforgivable. Their translations are not just lazy. They are deliberately shitty and cringe.

Stray Mylse 🎃🐍🕊🐞

StrayMylse

I watched #GoodOmens both in french dub and sub and some translations they chose were really interesting... So here's a thread with 62 highlights! Featuring: Crowley calling Aziraphale “mon

Dave Troy 🇺🇸

davetroy

1/There are people who are genuinely trying to talk intelligently about cryptocurrencies, but can’t because they don’t have historical background. This thread tries to correct that by suggesting required reading.