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Dr. Holly Walters (a.k.a Left Field Notes)
Manigarm
Calling #AnthroTwitter, #LingAnth Twitter, and #Linguistics Twitter. (Calling all language scholars!!!)If no one has yet coined a term for this phenomenon. We need one. (And please tell me if there
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Ed Henighan
TheProject_Ed
Quick thread on 'inclusive language'.Sample of recent of straight-faced 'woman' substitutions I've seen from various ostensibly serious organisations:MenstruatorChestfeederBleederPerson with (uterus/vagina/cervix/ovaries
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Steven Spohn (Spawn)
stevenspohn
I'd like you to do me a favorUse your phone / a notebook to keep track of the number of times you use ableist language in conversation this weekLameBlind to
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Alim Jayda (He/Him)
AlimJayda
I’ve come to realise that not many people understand why Deaf people & those who speak Sign Language get so passionate and sometimes defensive about their language.Therefore...A thread: Like many
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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
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Krishna Kumar Pandey कृष्ण कुमार पाण्डेय
ikrishna_pandey
Whenever they meet me, they ask “Do you speak Bihari? Is that your mother tongue?”“No, I don’t”, my perennial reply. I aggravate their perplexity by saying
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Alex Rawlings
alex__rawlings
I'm in Greece at the moment working on a short documentary about the Tsakonikan language revival movement. Here's a brief thread to explain what it's all about and some things
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s.varatharajah
varathas
Why Eelam Tamil people feel insulted about the language politics of #DeepaMehta’s new film #funnyboy @ava @Telefilm_Canada @CBCArts Casting an entirely non-Tamil speaking cast for a movie on a Tamil
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Queen ֍ #FreeMaral
Queen_Pavagane
If Azeris claim to be descendants of Caucasian Albanians and Turkic tribes (you know, the whole "two brothers, one nation" thing), how is it possible to push both narratives at
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Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt (Marian NMT)
marian_nmt
Hm. Aren't these just half-truths? At MS Translator we do both, we try to harvest as much free data as possible and we create custom translations where required. What we
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鍾翔宇 Xiangyu
notXiangyu
1. As a result of settler colonialism, the English language has existed in North America for four centuries, roughly the same amount of time 閩南語 (Hokkien or Minnan/Southern Min Language),
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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
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Katie Pennick
KatiePennick
Fellow wheelchair users - I am curious! In general conversation about getting somewhere, do you say "I walked there"/ "I went for a walk". Or do you use wheelchair language?
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Fran 🥭
Comrade_Fran
The @UKLabour party are imperialist war dogsa quick thread:Exhibit A: The Fatherland Liberation War(or in imperialist labour party language: The Korean War)Clement Atlee is a murderer & wardog & not
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🇦🇴 Rainha Nzinga 🇦🇴
vic_torina
We, Angolans don’t speak Portuguese because we want to, we speak Portuguese because we were forced to. The Portuguese would beat or kill Angolans who spoke Bantu languages. It got
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autistictic
autistictic
I wish I could use simple, plain language and still have my voice respected.What do we call the discrimination of only respecting someone as an equal human being with a
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