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dapiridoobman
Next up: very excited for the plenary panel on Race, Racism, & Racialization in Sign Language Research and Deaf Studies, moderated by @linasigns (who i’m fortunate to call my collaborator!)
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GunduHuduga| ಗುಂಡು ಹುಡುಗ|🕉
GunduHuDuGa
#PositiveTwitter Couple of nights back, I wrote my anguish that I observe on Twitter as a thread. One of the responses suggest that there are some positive aspects of Twitter
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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle)
Kiraofthewind1
Came across this on another site: “If someone uses the word ‘okay’ in a fantasy story, it immediately takes me out of the story.”Let me tell you why I use
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Gretchen McCulloch
GretchenAMcC
me, listening to First Burn for the umpteenth time: ooooh, look at that subjunctive! happy little subjunctive! Okay so at 1:41 in this song a line goes "Heaven forbid someone
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Sāmapriya Vasu | ḫa-am-ap-ri-a-ma-u-iš
samopriya
Ishkashimi verb of the day!#Ishkashimi кьл- kəl- [kɘ̟l- ~ kɘ̟ɭ-] ('kill, cut') < Proto-Iranian *kau̯s- ('kill, fight') < Proto-Indo-European *keu̯h₂-(s-) ('strike, hit, pinch, nibble at, ...')The v
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EngLangBlog
EngLangBlog
Some language in the news stuff about the use of the full-stop in messaging. Note the framing of this from The Sun and Mail Mail (second part of
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Lisa Fagin Davis
lisafdavis
I don’t know if this is a serious question or not, but I’m going to give it a serious answer. Here’s a thread on “So, you think you’ve solved the
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Cameron Mozafari
world_on_a_wire
Excited for this keynote with the awesome Barbara Dancygier on viewpoint and multimodality #HDLS14 Dancygier asks how meaning is constructed multimodally--constructions, metonymy, image schemas, etc.--but at the same time, there's
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David Neil
NeilOf9Hostages
Wish to clear up some misinformation that I posited in answering some replies.Whenever a claim is made it must be backed by evidence if we are not to assume everything.
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Tablas Creek
TablasCreek
Each week this summer we dive into one of our varieties for a #GrapeSpotlight thread. This week, the grape our cellar is full of right now: #Syrah! Did you know:Syrah's
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Amit Schandillia
Schandillia
[THREAD]1/19Long, long ago there was a people that lived someplace in the steppes of Eurasia who spoke a language linguists call, quite unimaginatively, the Proto-Indo-European tongue or PIE. Here, we're
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David Bowles (hiatus to write GÜERO sequel) 🏳️🌈
DavidOBowles
"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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हिरण्यरेता
Hiranyareta
But any such thing mentioned in Hindu Scriptures is back calculation by crafty Brahmins per Indologists.https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/924979200322424833 In 1790, the Scottish mathematician John Playfair demonstrated that the starting-da
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Cynical 🇪🇺
Prodactiv
#Turkey s gateway to Turan:Nakhchivan Autonomous RepublicNakhchivan, which provides a road connection between #Turkey and the Turkic world, is an autonomous republic in which #Turkey is a "guarantor".A thread#IstandWithArmenia #Tu
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Brad Duplessis
DuplessisBrad
#miltwitter Because of my OIF experience, I now associate Muqtada al Sadr with Easter. Bear with me. I was a Company Commander at FOB Chosin in Iskandariyah during the rise
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Rikker Dockum /ɹɪkɹ̩/
thai101
Thai has 5 tones. It's quite reasonable to think every tone should be possible on every (mono)syllable. But sound change reveals exactly why we basically never see this!(A comically long
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