#Language

Ásta Helgadóttir

asta_fish

So, how to destroy a language? Easy. Make sure that children do not get access to material such as cartoons, books or TV episodes in their own language. That's what's

Claire Lehmann

clairlemon

One thing I've learned from running @Quillette is that professionals can be very territorial. Being a member of a particular industry comes with status, a shared language, shared customs, an

Christi Belcourt

christibelcourt

We are all aware of what the 60’s scoop, the millennial scoop and all the scoops did to severe connections of people to family. I know people who have made

Eb Defender of Upholstery

EbThen

I just realized this thing that's weird. When we talk about language being harmful, folks think we're talking about our feelings being hurt like that's The Thing.So they say we

Emily Snook

hoopersnook

I’ve been thinking a lot about a particular lecture/exercise from my cognitive prof at OBU. At the time I had Drs. Roark, the Elder and Younger, for literally every class

Lindie Botes | 린디 • 琳迪 • リンコ

lindiebee

5 ways to practice a language when you don't know native speakers [a thread] 1. Shadowing videos and podcastsShadowing means listening to audio and repeating exactly what and how the

Jon Mackenzie

Jon_Mackenzie

What gets lost in this debate about technical language in football is that the real problem is "bullshitting" rather than "jargoning". There is absolutely nothing wrong with trying to speak

Neal Hockley

NealHockley

More survey-based papers I review seem to be including copies of the survey instruments now (a Good Thing - I auto reject otherwise). But many are still not including them

George Wⓐlkden

gwalkden

Academic linguists have, on the whole, done a poor job of communicating to the public what terms like “language” and “dialect” actually mean from a narrowly linguistic perspective. Which is

Alex West ~ Medieval Indonesia

siwaratrikalpa

This is more than halfway around the world, making Austronesian the most widely dispersed language family on Earth before the sixteenth century.https://twitter.com/koutchoukalimar/status/1326125399357726727 It's important to note that t

M V M 🕊

MindVsMatrix

Having true charisma can take you places you never thought were possible There's a reason people are so attracted to charismatic individualsLet’s talk about it 1. PRESENCE Give people your

Richard Ingold

RichardIngold

So for the past 5 weeks, with my high-intermediate General English class, I've gone completely @thornburyscott style 'unplugged'. Here're a few things I've learnt. 1/#AusELT #ELT #TESOL Classes are far

George Wⓐlkden

gwalkden

I see a chunk of linguistics Twitter is debating what "language" means again. I'm afraid I don't find this a hugely worthwhile activity. (1/) Obviously the term has an everyday

Keith Ammann

KeithAmmann

Command is an interesting #DnD spell. It may be the only one in the game that varies in power according to which language you're playing the game in. In English,

vin downes

vindownes

IMHO...The goal is to first have really good technique so that when it comes time to create, you can stop thinking and just play from a place of feeling and

Zaid Jilani

ZaidJilani

To Jonathan Chait's point, I put AOC's DNC address into readability formulas to see what the score would be: It's definitely college graduate level language, for the most part. But

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