#Language

Sigh... I still don't understand why do many people feel like they're ready to translate when they clearly are not. Understanding what it means doesn't mean they are able to
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everything black people do and produce is owned by every nonblack. if all black people came together and said “stop using our language that you demeaned us for, killed us
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Neat dream last night! If a deceased person makes a pin just for you with your name on it in the language of thr dead, you can shift into the
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#Kiswahili is Africa's best shot at a continent wide language. Kiswahili's main speaking Countries (Kenya & Tanzania) should strengthen the language and make it more African. Borrowed words should be
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Mini Hungarian language lesson: Sweary Saturday."Using Anglo-Saxon language" is a common euphemism for "turning the air blue", which of course is just another euphemism.But in Hungarian you'd struggle to use
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how do braille people read sign language wait
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hi now united i'm melanie i'm thirteen years old and i'm from cape verde i'm from Santiago island i will now explain some things about my country and i will
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tw// fatphobia, weighti saw what happened between lucas and baekhyun so i decided to share my opinions on it! i’m not justifying fat shaming / or comments made about weight
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Why using "ethnic hip" as a drag against a Korean is hidden xenophobia: a thread. The translation of "eseunik hip", the actual romanisation of the word, to "ethnic hip" is
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bfb characters and why theyre autistic!! a thread 8-ballhonestly to me hes pretty obviously autistic. overly monotone voice, difficulty w/ getting a sense of what's a joke and what isn't,
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Evolving thoughts. I read @DavidTreuer 's fine book Heartbeat of Wounded Knee and in it he gives a broad history of the original peoples of NA. He traces various groups
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My favorite part is where she pretends there are a bunch of people offended by something he just said when she really is just referring to herself being offended. At
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Today I modeled my identity web, using the brilliant lessons from @SaraKAhmed’s book BEING THE CHANGE and as a part of my rewrite of the SEL curriculum we use. Let
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On distance learning...1)Here’s the part of distance learning—any learning—that many don’t seem to understand. Teaching is the result of learning. Teaching is more about getting information than giving information. Anyone—any
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The normalization of using "content" as a catchall term for anything that's publishable online is not only profoundly lazy, it's also pernicious language that embodies a specific market logic the
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Off-topic, but in recent weeks I've been reminded of a fascinating lecture I once attended by someone who was multilingual about the ways we talk about illness in different languages—English
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