#English

enough is enough

EmilyGorcenski

Deutschlehrer: Das Hilfsverb ist sein, wenn das Verb ein Orts- oder Zustandswechsel bezeichnet.Ich, eine Informatikerin: aber Deutsch ist nicht funktional, alles hat einen Zustand.... Ich beschwere mich, weil man „ich

François Godement

FGodement

Remember China's "mask diplomacy" in the first half of 2020 and the issue of how much China actually donated vs. sold? China's official Customs statistics now shed some light on

Mike “10ForTheBigGuy”

Doranimated

"The goal of the US in pursuing these...sanctions...against the regime & its enablers is...to promote accountability & deny them access to the internat'l financial system until a...solution to the Syria conflict

Darren Chetty

rapclassroom

Watched The Secret Garden film. Like many illustrated versions of the book, it tries to dodge the racism within the original story. Indian people don’t speak in the film -

Holly, post-apocalypse elf.

hollymathnerd

HOW @RutgersU IS ACTIVELY HARMING THEIR MARGINALIZED STUDENTS: A THREAD. Link (end) tells of a "decolonization" effort at Rutgers that will de-emphasize correct grammar in student work, "in solidarity with

Gordon Barclay

GordonJBarclay

1. Today's the 102nd anniversary of the 'Battle of George square' in Glasgow, arguably the most mythologised event in 20th-century Scottish history. @LouiseHeren & I are working on account based

Peter Gainsford

PeterGainsford

People are being misled about colours in ancient Greek, yet again, by people who don't know ancient Greek. This time it's @AsapSCIENCE.Guys, I know you're just repeating what you've read.

SCS_Disputes

SCS_Disputes

Alvaro Semedo (1585-1658). Portuguese Jesuit. First arrived in Guangzhou in 1613 where he died in 1658. Apart from a brief period (1637-1645) when he returned to Europe, he spent all

Conspirador Norteño

conspirator0

Meet @Wizard_Predicts, a self-anointed Election Wizard with 106K followers and a taste for dubious tweets about voter fraud. It takes pride in being followed by @DanScavino, @MattGaetz, @DLoesch, and many

Bret Devereaux

BretDevereaux

It is really tricky to explain and even trickier to prove to readers who have perhaps not so much experience with different languages that just because a word X in

Yi Xiaocuo

YXiaocuo

"the police officers would take groups of four or five girls in for interrogation and take turns with them." We need to look at camp system as a rape center

Lindsay⁷

fragmentidea

I would like to get on my soapbox and talk about how machine translations aren’t all bad. Translanguaging is a growing field of research in second langauge instruction and when

Z Helman English Teacher & Consultant

z_helman

Inference isn't really a skill. There's no part of the brain that does your inferring for you. Either you have sufficient conceptual and real-world knowledge to 'see' a meaning or

shiv

bennedose

We read English and we are taught that knowledge is Goddess Saraswati. The English gyan about India on the Internet especially history is utter rubbish, but we are indoctrinated into

Asad Sayeed

asayeed

So one of the really wild things about the Swedish language is that it has not one, not two, but *three* types of passive voice, and it exploits passive constructions

The FSA

WeAreTheFSA

This afternoon chair of the APPG for Football Supporters @IanMearnsMP has written to the PM calling for the Government to launch its promised fan-led review ASAP. Mearns warns the Prime

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