#Language

Da’Shaun | they/them

DaShaunLH

“junk food” does not exist. food is food. the use of this language is generally to police fat people, but fat people have existed before that language and will exist

YES2020

YESPenn2020

In our Migration Session, @MNDjourel will present her paper "Media Persuasion through Slanted Language: Evidence from the Coverage of Immigration" (1/5) Can the language used by mass media to cover

Felix Neshila

FelixNeshila

Today I was watching a Ted-talk by Jamila Lyiscott of how language (foreign language(s)) is used in our systems to uphold social injustices, erase our cultures and traditions while also

Evan (very tired)

evantessuraea

I have just discovered that prescriptive linguistic bullshit makes me angry really really fast.Language is amazing. Humans are creative. Language flexes and changes and evolves and that's awesome.The correct usage

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ekklesiagora

I did really bad in math in school and I remain convinced that it was entirely because the way American public shools taught math at the time was really bad.

Mary Hui

maryhui

In parallel with its severe crackdown on civil society, the Hong Kong govt is increasingly speaking the CCP's authoritarian language. Together w/ @dkopf, we analysed 165K govt statements over 10yrs

Sam Black

SamuelHBlack

Ran across an exchange that made me think about intent v impact and that things with harmful impact for a group are often called out using language that I think

Izah Asmadi

nuizart

Writing in english vs writing in BM?To be honest,it was my dilemma since 2019 to decide my tone and main language for my personal account.I resort to English.why? There are

Amanda Askell

AmandaAskell

People sometimes think language models work like Alexa: if you ask them a question, they'll try to answer it and you can judge whether that answer was right. But when

Anson Horton

AnsonHorton

1/ The C# development team, for V1, consisted of 5 individual engineers, a lead, and a couple of PMs. 4 of the engineers worked on implementing the compiler, and the

kira

tianxiaju_

not to get into Translation Discourse on this account as well but:I think, a lot of the takes I see going around recently doesn't exactly account for context and the

Nico James

NicoJamesBCN

7 Languages: 7 Lessons learntLearning languages is fun. It develops your communicaton skills.You meet new people & you discover new customs & new cultures.It helps you challenge your thinking. But

Kathryn O’Driscoll 🎄 Kate

PoetryOD

Thread: When John Betjeman rhymed scones with stones in ‘How to get on in society’ (in a poem about the mistakes that identify people as not Upper Class when they

Keah Brown

Keah_Maria

I want to talk about why the use of “suffering” here is so harmful and just wrong. I’m not suffering from Cerebral Palsy. The only thing I suffer from is

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loudjewishboy

the way the trans community talks about medical transition is super binary and we need to start thinking more critically about that when you categorize trans people by whether they’re

Shubhomoy Sikdar

sshubho

Having studied in an English medium school, a classmate took admission in the local Govt. Engg College and found that the maths teacher preferred to teach in Chhattisgarhi, complete bouncer

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