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wyatt
Locksneedfartin
black fighting game fans in my mentions blowing a george floyd sized gasket over "scrub" right nowlol nobody gives a fuck dude i dont care how mad you are that
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wyatt
Locksneedfartin
wow this is blowing upIf you are a black/LGBT weeb i dont care what you think. black fighting game fans in my mentions blowing a george floyd sized gasket over
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Michael Pleyer
symbolicstorage
Ich bin immer wieder fasziniert davon, wie aktuelle Debatten der Sprachwissenschaft auch schon vor über 100 Jahren diskutiert wurden. Hier z.B. H. Pauls (1909) Position, dass die Sprachgeschichte Fragen muss
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Dr. Green, I'm a linguist doctor what what
caitlinmoriah
this morning after posting an article disparaging fellow linguists for our paper about his practice of disparaging linguists, Pinker retweets this with his own comment, guess what, disparaging linguists Let's
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Billy Swagspeare 2020
bswagspeare
Most European languages possess what linguists call "The T-V Distinction."That is, they have a formal word for "you" and then a more informal - or offensively condescending - "you" as
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SuluArtco
SuluArtco
1. Ilham Tohti2. Rahile Dawut3. Halmurat Ghopur4. Tashpolat Teyip5. Chimengul Awut6. Arslan Abdulla7. Dilmurat Ghopur8. Jemile Saqi9. Abdukerim Rahman10. Abduqadir Jalalidin11. Zulpiqar Barat12. Alim Ehet13. Nurbiye Yadikar14. Mutellip Sidi
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URSULA Edelheid (no, that's not my real name)
dietweeterei
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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Jecon Dreisbach
jecondraysbak
Is Bisaya a language? No. It is a language family consisting of languages spoken in the Visayas and northern Mindanao. Bisayan languages include Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Waray, Karay-a, and Surigaonon, among
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Andrew Hesselden 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇸🇨🇭🇩🇪🇫🇷🇮🇹🇵🇹
andrewhesselden
Thread: I’m fighting for a fairer Brexit championing Freedom of Movement and the rights of Brits & Europeans at home and abroad and all those who call more than one
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elkie
milnecals
linguistics + neopronouns - a thread that's way too long table of contents: part one: intropart two: what is linguistics?part three: what are pronouns and what are neopronouns? part four:
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Chris Kendall
ottocrat
In my day job I'm negotiating an agreement between the EU and another country. With my Brexit Twitter hat on, let me share some details on the steps involved in
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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.
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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
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Dr Hyelander 🇦🇲 🌋
Helioprogenus
Ւ's tumble toward obscurity, a sad fate for such a fine letter.Ւ (hyun) is the 34th letter of the Armenian alphabet. Its independent role has essentially disappeared from the reformed
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Aliah ✨
AliahLuck
there has to be a linguistic reason for this. I will find it.https://twitter.com/BlairImani/status/1313305773401731072 I blame Latin. Let me find out why these losers didn't just call it octem. Okay wow.
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Sāmapriya Vasu | ḫa-am-ap-ri-a-ma-u-iš
samopriya
Coptic toponym of #World_Elephant_Day!The #Coptic name for the island of Elephantine on the Upper Nile is Ⲓⲏⲃ or Ⲉⲓⲏⲃ (𝘌)𝘪ē𝘣, probably pronounced /je(ː)β/.The name of this island has been
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