#Language

Rory Turnbull

_roryturnbull

I've previously tweeted about "Pferd", the German word for horse, but what about in Hawaiian? How does a language figure out words for animals that are not present in the

Ian Miles Cheong

stillgray

Yamiche Alcindor, a hack, accuses the US Surgeon General Jerome Adams of being "offensive" for advising people to look out for their "big mama." He responds that it's the language

Timothy Keyes

timothykeyes

I really do love being at @StanfordMed - being here has afforded me countless opportunities to learn and grow as a physician-scientist-in-training and as a person. That being said, I

Aaron Abramov

aarondjents

i switched from JavaScript to backend engineering a year ago and i've never been happier i started writing JS around 2010 coming from Ruby and PHP. Fist it was basic

Kitbashcat 🏳️‍⚧️

kitbashcat

It wouldn't be the UK without winter weather in august and a transphobic hashtag trending. Doesn't matter how many self-professed 'free speech advocates' and 'wymyns rights activists' wrap it in

fasterthanlime 🌌

fasterthanlime

Got some "why are you making fun of Rust's difficulty" comments, so:1) because it's real - Rust is ambitious and novel, so it *does* have a difficulty curve. For me,

Capt.Amarinder Singh

capt_amarinder

Ridiculous attack by Arnab Goswami on Sonia Gandhi Ji in derogatory language is totally shameful & unacceptable. She was 22yrs old when she came to India & has been living

Ms. Lutzmann

MsLutzmann

Today we learned that #abed students will lose universal access to the Online Reference Centre next year, as #ableg defunds this resource. As someone who has taught students in grades

Arnold Platon

Arnold_Platon

The languages used in @EU_Commission President’s annual State of the European Union speeches #SOTEU A thread 1/ Wednesday, @POLITICOEurope published and interesting article on the languages used

Gary Fineout

fineout

@FLDEO executive director Ken Lawson trying to explain what's going on with unemployment system It has devolved into chaos - they can't mute the callers who are calling people "bitches"

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mary__retta

WHITE AND NON BLACK JOURNALISTS: here are some things you can do to uplift Black voices in your reporting, support the many Black journalists who will not be given as

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ynessawrites

𝐀 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐮𝐩𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐮𝐬; I will start this thread with introduction. I'm ynessa, an au writer.So a

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tobiosluv

some of the funniest foreign language qrts i WHEEZED the spanish really have NO chill IM WHEEZINGDJDJDEJDJ not foreign language but i just HAD to add it i’m

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HiatusIHateUs

tw // suicidelast night, a couple of people in my apartment and I spent hours convincing a 15yo girl not to jump. dragged her off the 9th-floor ledge, fetched her

Tatsuya Amano

tatsuya_amano

1 #ISTC20 #Sesh7 OK here’s a thread on #languagebarriers. Yes you are in the right conference. This is still about shorebirds. What I mean is I will explain how language

Free Jalil Muntaqim

EBreidford

interesting that the left twitter debate abt 'is reading theory inaccessible?' pops up around Paulo Friere's 99th birthday (today). I think [re-]reading Pedagogy of the Oppressed would make this whole