#English

Chadd Hollowed

ChaddHollowed

Pictured: Number of podcasts in each language by year created. Looks like 2020 might finally be the year that non-English podcasts finally start exceeding the English podcast growth rate! @Podnews

Prof Tanja Bueltmann

cliodiaspora

“Our language”... about that:English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European family. It first came to these islands through Angles, Saxons and Jutes—migrants from the continent who brought their

Paddy Cosgrave

paddycosgrave

What perplexes me most about some of the English Brexiteers who belittle the “foolish and hapless Irish paddies” is their ignorance of their own imperial history. The following bits of

Jerry👑

Jeremia53799115

Dear Chelsea fans, precisely our African fans. What's really this hate that most of us are developing about we signing English players. Lamps first transfer business has been;Kovacic (approved by

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barbi3dreamz

the appropriation of AAVE (a thread) AAVE stands for African American Vernacular English.It is typically incorrectly perceived as “bad English”, “ghetto language”, and/ or as labeled as “blaccent”. yet, AAVE

Bozi Tatarevic

BoziTatarevic

We arrived in America 25 years ago today. Feel old now. Didn’t know a word of English when we got here but picked it up quickly because I wanted to

Parveen Atwal - viciously nice.

ParveenAtwal3

Before I go tonight I want to answer a question posed by somebody a few days ago.Sikhs (though I can no longer call myself one) do celebrate the values of

Charlie

janeandharry

Oh look, a prescriptivist.I get it; I used to insist on grammar “rules” too because I enjoy learning them, but studying linguistics opened my eyes to how snobbish the idea

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

The confusion around airborne spread is around the word "airborne," which some experts decided means long-range transmission, even outdoors. That's nonsense. Let's speak plain English so everyone can understand. Airborne

Sascha Stronach (on Hiatus)

understatesmen

Conlangs tend to neglect sociolinguistics, and I wanna change that, so I'm going to give you a very simple #worldbuilding question that I imagine will have some incredibly deep answers:

Dan Hopkins

dhopkins1776

Last week, I posted some results from the ISCAP general-population panel showing a 2016-2020 pro-Trump shift among English-speaking Latino respondents--but no corresponding shift in partisanship. I now have some new

The Native

Zuko_Godlimpi

Ngugi observes that “language is a carrier of a people’s values and culture.” Mastery of a language, then, entails mastery of the way in which the speakers of that language

Absolute Chelsea

AbsoluteChelsea

Thiago Silva:"English football has its own unique characteristics. Obviously, every team has its own strategy for each match. Some like to keep the ball on the floor, others play a

Dr Emily Wilson

EmilyRCWilson

I put "NOT the first woman to publish a translation of the Odyssey" on my twitter-bio, after seeing it asserted for the gazillionth time. Here is why. It's factually not

Emran Feroz

Emran_Feroz

For @The_NewArab, I have written a piece about Western war crimes in Afghanistan."It took years to reveal a tiny part of the SAS's crimes in Afghanistan, and it's only a

Adam W 🍓

wegottheflow

WHY IS ENGLISH SPELT LIKE THAT?: A thread So this is a topic I see misrepresented and misconceived CONSTANTLY but it’s one I’m very interested in so I’m gonna tackle

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