#Linguistics

R.J. Somer (81k 🥺)

RJsomer

Lukewarm take: but replacing ableist vocab with other words that will become ableist in the future because you use them as synonyms (linguistics 101) is a failure. Rather, you must

Peter Jenks

psejenks

Here a thread about the poll results; AKA: What I learned on my summer vacation on Twitter as a privileged white male speaker of standardized English who got tenure as

Jarrah Sastrawan

infiniteteeth

Many Javanese words have a schwa in their first syllable: təlu (three), pəkan (market), dəmak (gift). In Old Jav texts these usually written as or , with the unwritten

കവിത

techno_kavi

Help me with LOOT?Hobson Jobson finds separate origins for Hindi and Persian versions:Hind. lūṭ, & Skt. lotra, for loptra, root lup, 'rob, plunder'; luṇṭ, 'to rob'Ar.Pers. lūṭīy 'one of the

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Emmyz2hot

One time I had a blind date with one Facebook babe back thenWe met at a restaurant and she came with her friend when it's only N1k remaining in my

Meghan Ciana Doidge

mcdoidge

[thread] Wow! The list of topics/experts available for #officehours via @sfwa's virtual #Nebulas2020 is incredible! Want to talk about writing blind/deaf characters? @snarkbat is available! Or chat with @ArkadyMartine about

Manchester Voices

VoicesMcr

Welcome to #LiveHive! I (@Holly_Rebekah) am here for the next hour to tell you a bit about what we’ve been up to for the last month at #ManchesterVoices #McrVoices! We’ve

AAH REAL MONSTERS (still keaton)

Iamphouse

i lost my arrival au wip thread but i'm nearly done the first update and: i love them, your honor [always sunny theme] "The Gang Quits Their Jobs to Hang

RBKmakes

WinterlightHome

Once again restating my UTTER JEALOUSY over English archaeology. A whole damn country where you can just dig up Roman tesserae in your backyard and find Paleolithic burial sites on

Dr Kat Gupta

mixosaurus

I don't have much to say about Octopus Discourse but I do want to point out that arts, humanities & social sciences do have a specialised vocabulary w/ specialised meanings.

nefelibata

vellichorIN

A thread on discovery of Proto Indo-European (PIE) Language, the ancestral Language of modern Indo-European languages that are spoken by 3.2 billion people in several continents, and the established relationship

Sridhar Vembu

svembu

1/ Yesterday our high school age students, our teachers and I agreed on a concrete goal: students should be able to write a short essay in Tamil without error by

بنت ثاقب

bintesaqib_

What did Ala Hazrat Imaam Ahmed Raza Khan رحمة الله عليه master in his lifetime 1. Principles of HadithThe science of hadith deals with both the narrating (riwaya) and

Joseph Casillas

jvcasill

Do you like open science and reproducible research? Of course you do. You should read this thread. #openscience #rstats #academia #linguistics #phonetics I taught a graduate course (Spring2019) on

Nóra Veszprémi

NVeszpremi

Time for another Hungarian linguistics thread. Featuring my favourite topic in etymology: taboo words.Well, the thread won’t really use taboo words. God forbid. Those are taboo!Instead, it will look at

Jenn O'Donnell 📖

JENTranslations

I want to talk about the importance of active vs passive sentences in Japanese to English translation. So here's a short thread on linguistics and translation.(Thanks Jocelyne for the inspiration