#English

Gasia Ohanes

gasiaohanes

#Egypt is carrying out a wide-scale crackdown on women perceived to be defying social norms, specifically social media influencers on TikTok. Cairo's Economic Court has recently charged two women with

gambs@正義の味方

gambsVNs

The difference being that by making shitty prose more flowery or whatever it is you want me to do, I am actively changing what the author said and how they

Patrick Howse

Baghdaddi

Here's a thread about England I thought up while walking in Bavaria today. I got quite cross, despite seeing hundreds of butterflies, beautiful meadow flowers & Golden Eagles, and swimming

विनोद शर्मा 🇮🇳

vinod_sharma

In debate on NewsX last night Radia Vir Sanghvi explained why English-speaking people like him had lost control of the narrative on English language news channels. 1/n With typical Lutyens

natty strange

nuns_on_film

"English As She is Spoke" is a book that was published in 1884. It's an English phrasebook written by two guys who only spoke Portuguese and French and didn't speak

David Frum

davidfrum

In the 19th century, genteel Britons began wishing each other "Happy Christmas" rather than "Merry Christmas" because "merry" was understood to mean "drunk off your face." Worse - per Oxford

Dr. Liz W Faber

LizWFab

So what was the best class you took in college? Not the hardest or easiest, but the one that changed your life? Most of my English courses were formative for

Jon Riesenbach 🎮 Age of Calamity

moriyoshijon

One-Size-Fits-All Translation is a Myth: A Thread (/8) A common thing we face as localizers is the question of why certain words or phrases are translated differently at different points

Patrick Chovanec

prchovanec

1. Mildly amusing story about misunderstood words, even within English: 2. I was working in London. My office mate was telling a story. "Yeah, he was out last night and

Yiqin Fu

yiqinfu

Why do some Chinese people pick weird English names?In China, family names are concentrated (20% of the people are Wang/Li/Zhang), whereas given names are unique. The opposite is true in

Ian Dunt

IanDunt

Nice to see English politicians suddenly panicking about the Union after spending four years actively putting it in jeopardy. What did they think was going to happen? One if the

Rajan Venkateswaran (സ്വാമി)

swamy64

I studied in Malayalam Medium till end of Standard 3. Father was transferred and he enrolled me in a Convent for 4th where they were teaching Tom Sawyer and Uncle

JIm Jacques

JacquesJIm

I am going to try an explanatory linguistics thread in the spirit of the brilliant @DannyBate4. Why do we say “Julius Caesar” the way we do in English? The Romans

Danny Bate

DannyBate4

'Hallow' itself is a noun, from Old English hālga, which was commonly used before its replacement by French 'saint'.You'll therefore come across saints like 'Hālga Cuþbert' and 'Hālga Martinus' in

Għar Gremxul

ghargremxul

Super excited for this!https://twitter.com/GnGMeets/status/1355523663215251457 The language of RPGs is a technical language, much like an engineering manual. How do you translate that to another language? Dice, especially with multiple side

Billy Bragg

billybragg

1/7 Agree with much of this. Just wish Zoe had made it clear that she is talking about ethnic nationalism - a toxic mixture of white grievance, middle class resentment

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