#Language

Sue Fletcher-Watson

SueReviews

APA guidelines still recommend person-first language for writing about autism but I am trying to use identity-first nearly all the time now. We had a positive experience with a journal

Kalina Chung, Über lesbian

kalina_chung

Recugender positivity post"To identify with your birth gender, but you refuse to be cis; to be used as recugirl or recuboy. From the latin word 'recuso', meaning 'to refuse'."Putting this

Queer Buzzkill (they/them)

trans_rage

Please. Please! Navigate the conversation of keeping cis men accountable for the abuse that they enact and perpetuate without using implicitly transphobic and/or intersex erasing language. I assure you it

Lucid Crow

lucid_crow

I'm trying my best to make sense of timeless minds and disembodied minds. A timeless mind would have to be one unchanging state and have no moments in which it

Alf

AlfonzCavalier

Scots is a dialect, writing in an accent and using regional slang words does not change that it just makes you look daft https://twitter.com/ionafyfe/status/1348355793616252930 'Action maun be taen tae gie'

Peter Banning

Lost789Boy

"generic grey villain"idk man sometimes y'all sleep on clear color theory/shape language when it comes to filmNot everything in comics is 1:1 transferable & maybe a grey villain w/sharp edges

Jalan Raja Chulan ain't Wall Street

zazulazman

I read a posting about systemic racism ealier. It's prevalent everywhere. What surprised me was someone told me of an example of an organisation predominated by one race, and every

Ntina Tzouvala

ntinatzouvala

I have no sympathy for genocide apologist Aung San Suu Kyi. However, her fall from grace has more to do with the bankruptcy of human rights as a supposedly non-political

鍾翔宇 Xiangyu

notXiangyu

Because western states emerged as nation-states, westerners tend to use the words "nation" and "state" interchangeably. This is wrong.Excerpts from Stalin's Marxism and the National Question:1. "A nation is prim

Carl Hendrick

C_Hendrick

Thoughts on teaching grammar: 1. A lot of the animus towards teaching grammar seems to come from two radically different views of English language as a subject: If you view

The Autisticats

autisticats

For those who don’t know, Sia (the musician) released the trailer for a film called Music yesterday, that she directed. It’s about an autistic girl named Music, who is played

Peter Arenella

arenella1

In a past life in the "90's when I was working for ABC News, I was asked on air what I thought about a particular attorney's performance in court.

mathfrak{Michael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt}

betanalpha

During Timnit's excellent talk (which you can watch below) the question of whether or not the process of statistical inference, and indeed a scientific method, can be objective and I

Gayatri Jha

gayatrijhahaha

Day 1-#100DaysOfCode :What is Node.js?Thread To understand this, lets talk about JavaScript. JavaScript is among 3 top languages and its going to complete its 25 years. It was initially a

Danni Loe

dannibelow

I’m feeling a little spicy about this TTS auto-translate update.Get ready for a thread, from someone who is paid to translate board game rulebooks/collateral~ I get paid to translate

Erin Palmer

Sunshine_ERP

1/ Recently, in another forum, someone asked “what made you feel competent to start a blog?” I can’t find the post, but I remember there being plenty of responses. Someone

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