#Language

There is racism and police brutality in Britain, but one must be careful not to impose the dynamics & categories of the US onto here. Two very different societies &
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pakistanis, please when addressing black people dont call them "kaalay" its fucking dehumanizing and racist. maybe crack open your urdu books and actually learn something for once. also yes please
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There's a lot of stupidity in this thread, but the worst is surely dumbing down the complex arts of translation and localization to "word swap," and "word swap (slang)."IDK how
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1/ THREAD: Body Language Analysis No. 4443: Mike Pence, fear of stairs, Donald Trump, and the need for Alpha-upregulation. #BodyLanguageExpert #BodyLanguage #EmotionalIntelligence https://twitter.com/johnvmoore/status/1275461529312337925 2/
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So, here's a thing about me: I loop songs. I can listen to the same song (if I like it) dozens of times over days.I also like fragments of some
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Yesterday I had a beautiful conversation with a dear friend where we named and discussed the fact that sometimes there is dissonance between us. For me I’m always ok with
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My fellow Asian Americans: We have been taught all our lives to behave, to respect our elders, to fit in and please the white system that holds the control. Get
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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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“ye aam dekhiye” is my love languagehttps://twitter.com/AgBioWorld/status/1258975888324153344 (I keep coming back to this thread and it gives me so much joy)
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I want to do a thread here on something I find hard to talk about. Not for any emotional reason; just that I find we don't have adequate words in
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Mini-thread just real quick as a PSA for the news of the day: If you would like to read about the looooong history of conservatives trying to use classrooms to
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Imposter syndrome discourse is doing such awful to people. When say you're unsure about a project, everyone gives you a "you got this, girl!", instead of helping with what's insecurity,
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the reason i disagree with this thread is because "earl grey" is used here to assume "earl grey tea" when "earl grey latte" exists. the ambiguity that's argued to exist
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microaggressions against deaf/hard of hearing people (a thread) after a deaf/hoh person not hearing you - “nevermind” “i’ll tell you later” you won’t tell us later. even if you intend
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This is me making some sense of some stuff.I have a disability. I am disabled. I was born with a club foot.I don't know if I "count" or not as
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1. As promised, here are the first 25 teacher wishlists! If you don't see your wishlist here, there are more to come!Let's get these lists cleared! First up, @LineaTunick who
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