#Language

In 2020, I was hired to advise a national news organization on how to de-bias their language. One point I made repeatedly was that they needed to avoid what I
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I am not going to get involved in Discourse but... how do you not know about research assistants in academia and also can people stop being like postdocs only do
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I'm not sure that I agree with all of the framing in this document, but the underlying ideas are well-founded. research indicates that students who are ESL &/or are "non-standard"
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This is a good thread to think with re KH and critical self-reflexivity in TamBram diaspora esp, and where my mind was wandering with my earlier tweet on the power
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a thread of phrases that are aave and a lot of nb be saying ir not knowing it’s aave making this hopefully most my mutuals will pay attention too and
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Because I don’t have the time or energy to rewrite that 2nd thread, I’ll break it down:“Latinx” was created during the feminist movement in Brazil in the 80s, not in
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Are nation state actors behind the Twitter hack? Right now my hypothesis is: more likely curious teens than APT. Why? Geert Wilders' compromised DM to Dutch woman loosely translates to
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Ableism is pervasive in our everyday language and you might not be aware of it. So here is a thread of common ableist words and phrases and alternatives you can
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My mom grew up with no Armenian schools, no active churches, no community centers and was forced to hide her Armenian identity on the land of our ancestors; the very
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"Fit-shaming" is a thing I had to read with my own eyes today.This is what happens when people discuss topics without power analysis. I'm very familiar with the misogynoir associated
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Among the many myths about adoption that I would like to yeet into the sun, foremost would be the idea that replacing one sent of parents with another eliminates a
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Today we release our investigation into the status of the UK's offshore marine protected areas. Out of the 73 areas, only five *might* be meeting their conservation objectives, and destructive
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As continue our work this morning w/ @WeAre #EducatorInstitute2020 we are thinking deeply about how we talk about our schools AND how we talk withinour schools. Using critical discourse analysis
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Are English dubs really bad or are you a weeb who's learned Japanese from anime It's fair to like subs by the way! Source material can always be amazing. Let's
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Thread: Good few years ago, I was thinking about "what language is, how it works, how it is created, how it evolves and how it disappears"...The result: realization that "language
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The Catalan language is in danger of extinction in Barcelona and its region. Especially among young people the numbers are dramatic. My personal opinion on a few of the causes.
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