#Language

BORJO2024 (5%)

BloorisJohn

Our critique began as all critiques begin: with doubt. Doubt became our narrative. Ours was a quest for a new story, our own. And we grasped toward this new history

Alex Gino

lxgino

Hey there. If you find something "very surprising" about a marginalized community you don't know a whole lot about, may I submit to you that there is quite likely context

Kliph Scurlock

KliphScurlock

1/ A fairly long #DyddMiwsigCymru thread……now with a listenable playlist. Thanks to @ieieproductions for the suggestion!Rhan Un: Bore Da (Part 1: Good Morning)https://www.dropbox.com/s/ryupd8jgc48tz32/Bore%20Da.wav?dl=0 2/ Rhan Dau: Nos

Eleven Paz

Adetutu_OJ

The Yorùbá àrokò (semiotics) messaging system... The photo below is a message in the Yorùbá àrokò messaging system. Arokò was created for long-distance communication and maily to keep information secret.

Uldis Balodis

uldis_balodis

I was looking at Finnish linguist Heikki Ojansuu's 1911 field notes on Leivu (spoken near Lejasciems and Ilzene in NE Latvia) and found this note about a priest giving some

Rachel Chan

RachelChan42br

1/7 Seeing as nothing seems to make sense atm, I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring.My mother tongue is Hakka. It's an odd dialect, a cross between Mandarin

Kerwin Fjøl

zermatist

More interesting than the return of magic/occult powers imbued into words is the verbalist class's active will towards it. Thirty years ago, they would try to "take the power out"

Neil Brown

neil_neilzone

Carolina’s paper (https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/10603/9549) is well worth reading, if you are interested in regulation of social media. The “third space theory” is not new, but this is a clear and concise

Benjy Renton

bhrenton

Tonight's #VaccinateAmerica dashboard update: 25 jurisdictions have released vaccine dashboards with a total of 497,766 doses administered. This is 49.4% of the CDC's 1,008,025 reported doses on its dashboard.https://public.tableau.

josie without the pussy or the cat

ssweetnr2

list of things i can’t get my head around the placebo effect buoyancy hyperinflation (basic ik but i cannot get my head around it) space and the universe. like a

Conspirador Norteño

conspirator0

Twitter permanently banned @gatewaypundit yesterday. With it gone, here's what the retweet network for thegatewaypundit(dot)com looks like: two main clusters (English and Japanese), and the main nodes are @mei98862477, @kirstiealley,

stephen fowler

stphnfwlr

Good early morning! A week out from the Jan. 5 runoffs, 2,337,477 Georgians have already early voted. -156,153 voted in person Monday 12/28-37,166 absentee ballots marked accepted Monday 12/28-Metro areas

POC4WELSHINDY

POC4INDY

#DidYouKnow that prisoners at @OfficialBerwyn in #Wrexham are being stopped from speaking Welsh? A thread.#CymraegYnYCarchar #Wrexham #Cymru #Cymraeg [1] Prisoner Solidarity Network and @undodcymru have been made aware of the

Sāmapriya Vasu | Šamoprio Boš(u)

samopriya

This is a good initiative, but it is sort of unreasonable to think that a speaker community necessarily agrees on what to call their language. Case in point, my own

Esther Choo MD MPH

choo_ek

I run a consulting company that assesses organizational culture and will share that no matter what we uncover, there is nearly always an element of poor communication between leaders and

Tim Mathews

timmathews

Two related articles I noticed over the weekend:Commander of Ranger training battalion relieved over ‘derogatory comments’https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2020/12/18/commander-of-ranger-training-battalion-relieved-over-derogator

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