#Language

Mika wants OT5 COMEBACK

baeju43

"Maybe if they worked hard they could earn xx monthly/ask for a higher pay" mentality needs to stop Not everyone's work are compensated properly. A slacker could earn more

Gill R

thespiralquirk

"Inclusivity" A short thread.We're told we mustn't say "women" when talking about female biology because it excludes transmen and females who identify as "non-binary".That's not the reason. It's

Incunabula

incunabula

Imagine there was a script INVENTED FROM SCRATCH BY ONE MAN in the 20th century, now used by hundreds of thousands of people and becoming the defacto standard for a

Mark Dingemanse

DingemanseMark

looks like #Neuralink marketing update is delayed — fortunately the written word remains a dependable technology to get stuff straight into your brain. some light reading on brain bridges: 1)

Shubham Kumar

shubham765

This thread is about Nehru & Savarkar writing about themselves with pseudonyms.Nehru, in 1937, writes an article for Modern Review with a pseudonym 'Chanakya'. He writes that "the President of

Yiddish Praxis

RokhlK

The dilemma of the Yiddishist curmudgeon, fighting the essentializing of Yiddish at every turn: on the one hand, spend a disproportionate amount of time trying to explain why Yiddish is

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tobaccovanillou

𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐢𝐬 || sign language!; a very interesting thread first, let’s start with a common one, they did this to each other constantly, the famous “thumbs up” sign. the

lianne⁷ is inactive but not really :D

E7ERNALLY

i really want to understand why kpop stans in the quotes are defending the ss. the word "dumb" isn't even a nice word to begin with. here's the meaning for

Tim Ball

TimTB04

This article on SF language training is problematic. The authors continuously cite a Small Wars Journal article from 2014 (7 years ago) to claim that SF language skills have atrophied.

Dr. C

chao_mbogho

I understand the part that youth need to be more careful and stop having parties, road trips, going upcountry etc as if this is a holiday. These are perilous times.

Steven Hail

StevenHailAus

Sauk Eslake, on the radio this morning, for the most part provided a good commentary on the upcoming budget. Spoiled by two things, each of which are reflex actions of

international conspirator 🤡

FluffFaux

Absolutely surprising to me that one of the easiest ways for people to appropriate the idea of being allies has been to talk about how not to use slurs. Like

Kurt Eichenwald

kurteichenwald

To @VanJones68: This is a time you're wrong. Too often in these killings by cops, the cases are overcharged, which makes it very hard to prove the underlying elements of

Mike Dickison

adzebill

Remember a week ago when the news broke in Reddit that much of Scots Wikipedia had been written by one admin, an American teenager who couldn't speak Scots? A lot

Paul Tassi

PaulTassi

Ugh fine I’ll watch Godzilla versus Kong Gonna need some Outriders beer for this Update: The Outriders beer is actually really good Evie is hiding from King Kong Why are

Daddy Angel

champagnzee

I don’t need to take another test to tell you: my top love language is gifts.It’s the worst one. People view you as shallow or impossible. They don’t understand it