#English

Kulpreet Singh

kulpreetsingh

Many people scoff at the fact that global languages don't have the terminology in the diagnostic and statistical model (DSM) of mental disorders created by psychiatrists in the West.(Thread) The

शक्ति

alleahtheguru

i’m not one to push my political opinions on anyone, but i’ve been reading up on history and there’s an undeniable correlation between the ‘fall of spirituality’ and the ‘rise

Liz Crash

AsFarce

people often assume the technical sense of a word is the "correct" and original one and if people use it differently in everyday speech it's a misuse, but neither are

pog... or some say, poggers

mensisrituaI

those "wait you guys don't talk like how you type? sus" tweets are so annoying. there's nothing suspicious about people having more leeway when it comes to typing .. hell

Sophie Ross

sophierossuk

As a language lover, I adore jotting down Indian turns of phrase in English, whether translations from Indian languages, archaic English phrases or new inventions. Indian English is a valid

John Bird 🇬🇧

JohnBir46813172

Its about power, not about truth. They only deconstruct European identity. This is about depriving us of any claim we have to anything, so we are rendered powerless. This is

Huw

Huwburt

Teacher advice: If home-schooling gets too much, just stop. Go and do something else; don’t make it more important than it needs to be. Really, your well-being is more important

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/6November's trade data continues to show just how lopsided China's economic recovery has been, with almost all of the recovery on the supply side, rather than the demand side. With export revenues up 14.9

Lizzie Dearden

lizziedearden

Breaking: A 16-year-old Sudanese boy has drowned in the English Channel while trying to reach the UKFrench authorities announced the death with "immense sadness" after his body was washed up

LuigiBlood

LuigiBlood

There's no Lua in Fire Emblem. Everything is baked into one executable, so hacks are done at runtime with native code. Oddly enough there's a bunch of mentions of FA5J

That Non-Binary Immunocompromised Feminist

consent_sexy

Ableism a thread I've reached the point where I'm going to block people I thought were friends. When you use ableist insults, you cause harm to those with disabilities and

foone

Foone

Fun fact: the number of users of American Sign Language is somewhere in the range of half a million to a million.As a language in the US, this puts in

Dr Estelle Paranque

DrEstellePrnq

Dido Elizabeth Belle (1761–1804) was raised as part of an aristocratic family in Georgian Britain. She was born in the Caribbean in 1761, the illegitimate daughter of a black woman

Danny Bate

DannyBate4

The first line of Beowulf mentions the Gārdene, translated into Modern English as 'the Spear-Danes', since 'gar' is an archaic word for 'spear'.Due to the plant's pointy shape, we find

Jasmine M Wilkie

JasmineMWilkie

It's February -'An Gearran' in Scottish Gaelic. Ruairidh MacIlleathain explains:"Whilst the English calendar is based on the Roman model,the Gaelic names for the months of the year are linked to

Christopher Snowdon

cjsnowdon

No this rubbish AGAIN? Thread/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/25/english-and-scottish-get-drunk-most-often-25-nation-survey-finds Two years ago there was some journalism so bad I have included it in a talk I do about junk stats

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