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Aruna Krishnan അരുണ കൃഷ്ണൻ अरुणा कृष्णन 🇮🇳
Arunakrishnan
Today, is Shraavana Poornima, celebrated as ‘Samskritadinam’, #WorldSanskritDay, it's also the auspicious day of 'Rakshabandhan'!A thread on how a group of volunteers are doing divine service teaching #Sanskrit to all,
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Gretchen McCulloch
GretchenAMcC
I want to talk a bit about the news cycle and why @lingthusiasm doesn't participate in it This is a threadhttps://twitter.com/lingthusiasm/status/1245885364541296643 We launched @lingthusiasm in 2016Anyone remember 2016? *hollow laugh*
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Dr. Taylor Jones
languagejones
A lot of people have been asking me about this: after reviewing and analyzing the audio, it is my expert professional opinion that Mr. Floyd did *not* say "I ate
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Daniel (דניאל) Bögre Udell🎗
bogreudell
This thread presents a brief, if incomplete, history of the Jewish people. In the 20th century, our language diversity fell into sharp decline, as ancient Jewish communities across Europe, Africa,
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Gretchen McCulloch
GretchenAMcC
Every so often, you end up down a Wikipedia rabbit hole that reminds you how Wikipedia's editorship being 85-90% male creates huge content gaps for certain topics, especially those more
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Rory Turnbull
_roryturnbull
German and English words are usually pretty similar. Maus~mouse, Milch~milk, Wasser~water, sechs~six, Vater~father. But the German word for horse, "Pferd", is nothing like English. What happened? A thread. /1 English
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أبو النضر
IbnEbida
A response thread.There’s so much misunderstanding that I felt forced to make this. In this thread I will be discussing:(1-4)The meaning of Uloohiyyah and its relationship with Ruboobiyyah(5-23) The religion
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tantum
QuasLacrimas
btw, for ppl interested in translation, here is a more technical version of Wyatt’s argument: (1/?) 2/ Translation is an art if you’re translating Proust or La Fontaine or something.
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Citizen
AsianBot2000
A thread. Why in the mainland, people use simplified Chinese rather than traditional ones.Simplified Chinese characters have a long history. Chinese characters changed from Oracle Bone Inscriptions and inscriptions to
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dw
jeegaram1996
A lot of people don't realize that Black English (BE) actually shares a lot of similar grammatical structures to "prestigious" languages. So, here's my 87590th thread on AAVE (African American Vernacular
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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
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Wake up
enigmaoftruth1
THREAD: The Miraculous Language of the Quran, Evidence of Divine Origin. [Bassam Saeh] 1. This thread will present some key points and proofs from Bassam Saeh's great book on this
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|| Bhāratavarṣa ||
InfoVedic
● Sanskrit- Language of ScripturesSanskrit is an extremely systematic classical language of Hinduism. The literal meaning of Sanskrit is ‘cultured’ or ‘refined’. It is said that no expression in this
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Tim Grant
timgrant123
OK here goes for today’s paper for the #FLReadingGrp Bamman, Eisenstein, & Schnoebelen (2014) Gender identity and lexical variation in social media. J. of Sociolinguistics I’ve read this paper *a
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Aabhas Maldahiyar 🇮🇳
Aabhas24
1/n #SadarPranam @Schandillia ,I’m sorry but this thread trying to prove “Aryan Invasion” is full of errors & flawed understandings. Here is my point by point rebuttal to your bunkum
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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
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