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For today's #Archive30 on #Misconceptions, a thread written by our Archivist, Kirsty Stewart. #Misconception 1/6 Archivists = librarians. We're a separate profession dealing with records documenting people, institutions, events whether
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Ol’ Last Real Rez Dog
DeadDogLake
English language is a transaction language. It’s a trade language and no longer has a land to call it own. It’s a drifter language. Don’t get me wrong, there are
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ur goth dyke mom
beka_valentine
yesterday i gave an impromptu explanation of deep structure to explain why Neal Stephenson's usage of the idea in Snow Crash was extremely shitty and bad and he didn't know
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Shoko Asahara appreciation society
CitzenZero
Yesterday I posted about this thinking it was just a funny coincidence, but the more you research about it the weirder it gets. Props to my friend @formatkamui that also
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Dr Jake Wallis
JakeWallis_ASPI
Currently some divergence between various stakeholders investigating disinformation and social media manipulation. Part of the challenge is that different stakeholders see different pieces of the puzzle and have different approaches
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Dr. Suzanne Wertheim is staying home/washing hands
WorthwhileRandC
Linguist here. It looks like one of our biggest issues in this pandemic is convincing people that:1. it is deadly serious2. the consequences of their actions may be life or
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wyatt
Locksneedfartin
Translations are a very simple concept. You take a word and translate it DIRECTLY into another languages word. Sometimes there is no direct translation. So you engage in whats called
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Hetan Shah
HetanShah
New @HEPI_news report says only 32% 15-to-30 year olds from the UK can confidently read and write in two or more languages (including their first language). Second placed EU country
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Joseph T Noony
JoeAgneya
Look at these various names carefully!They will tell you a secret.. a story..Elephant- Sanskrit íbha, Mycenean erepa, Greek el-éphas, Latin ebur, Hittite laḫpa. and Slavic velibodŭ,Ape- Sanskrit Kapi, Greek kēpos,
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Taylor Simone ✊🏿🏳️🌈
nomadblaque
THREAD:Wondered why everyone was talking about #AAVE all of a sudden. Seeing as I've got time and am bored, let's get into a bit of history and context.1/17 So we
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AAbiodun 🇳🇬
AAbiodun_
15 Most Widely Spoken Nigerian Languages. [A Thread]1. HausaThis is a branch of the Afroasiatic language famith the largest number of speakers, spoken as a first language by about 35
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Gas Station Enjoyer
romanogang
Thread on what @Crunchyroll is doing to #nagatoro , one of the hottest shows out of japan is unforgivable. Their translations are not just lazy. They are deliberately shitty and
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Michael Hobbes
RottenInDenmark
I think this is why the "cancel culture" moral panic gets under my skin so much. *So* many of Americans' false understandings of people and events come from the fact
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Tulaib
ZaadFather
I need an excuse to procrastinate, so I’m starting a series of threads on the letter ض. You may remember @phdnix ‘s fantastic thread from several months back demonstrating how
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duru
durulangs
facts about the turkish language : a thread 1- in 1928, thanks to atatürk's (founder of turkey) reforms, the ottoman turkish alphabet was replaced with latin alphabet. literacy rate
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Karl Sharro
KarlreMarks
A thread on the historic roots of why it's difficult for the UK and the EU to agree a deal. European culture is notoriously averse to compromise, largely because of
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