#Language

Jinghua Qian

qianjinghua

This is a very minor pet peeve but one that comes up often: Chinese is overtranslated! People will pick up what xiaolongbao and hargow are just like they picked up

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singa_mengiau98

I know it's quite late to finally set a goal but listen to my dreamy dream: I want to serve for 5 years in Malaysia (only to fulfill the contract

🐾 Beta the Protogen 🐺 (CEO of Cuteness)

Beta_Proto

1. uwu is a term all furries use, there are 30 yos on the internet that say this2. trump is a dumbass, i want free healthcare, racism is bad, we

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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tinysxraru

i’m tired, tired of not respecting utaites, that you ignore them and continue doing things that they don’t want, you’re double standards when asking to delete posts where their face

Alex Andreou

sturdyAlex

Keep staring at this graph from today's briefing, struck by how closely UK numbers (massaged down as they are) track Italy's, last month.How have so many deaths become normalised?Do you

ChronHib ✍⌨

ChronHib

Tōkaidō 37 Akasaka 赤坂The name of the thirty-sixth station Akasaka means “red slope”.One of the words for “red” in Old Irish is derg < PC *dergo-, prps. < PIE *dʰergo-.

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groovymccartney

a study of john's and paul's body language while sitting: a thread

Spinninnanight

kidnoble

White folks, men, and cisgender people, the next several days are a prime opportunity to get your folks together. You want to claim the title “ally” you have to act.

Matthew Beveridge

matthewjpb

Nigel Te Hiko, who died yesterday, was a good friend. I worked with him for 4 years at Raukawa. He helped me massively on my journey to begin understanding te

JeannieLin

JeannieLin

Diversity in historical romance: The difficulty is this -- and you have to take yourself out of the context of any book for a moment and try to reframe historical

Matthew Mendelsohn

MattMendel

I have seen some commentary about "discrimination against unilingual Anglophones" in the federal public service. I have a few things to say. I co-chaired a process in the federal public

Athi Mtongana

Artii_M

An old lady who came to get her medication from #Clicks pharmacy speaking to the EFF. @Newzroom405 This is what the old lady said when she arrived at the #Clicks

Sudhir Suryawanshi

ss_suryawanshi

Maharashtra energy minister Nitin Raut had filed the FIR against Republic TV editor in chief Arnab Goswami in Nagpur that FIR has been transfered to NM Joshi police station Worli,

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kookspic

please click on this link and stay there at least 30 seconds, and scrow down to the thing that appears in the third pic to recommend it!! the article is

Adam Barr

adamtbarr

I’m honestly shocked by the number of #evangelicalleaders who blithely maintain the moral equivalency of the @GOP and @DNC They do this by a) emphasizing that there are blind spots