#Languages

D Gramling 🌈

Linguacene

At @theGSA in Oct 2021, @AZChantelle and I are going to be gathering a seminar on linguistic indifference and its impact on teaching, research, and curriculum, which seems to me

James Pickett

pickettzoda

an'ana / анъана / ئەنئەنە, the word for 'tradition' in modern Uzbek, Tajik, and Uyghur, has an interesting etymology connecting it to very early Islamic history. This word initially puzzled

Cody Wittick - Influencer Marketing

Cody_Wittick

1/ Creating An Unboxing Experience (Thread)How to get influencers to post for free without you even asking for it this Holiday season. 2/ What is seeding? Sending out your product

DR. SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN🗽🤘🏽

sivavaid

I respectfully disagree with my @Wired colleague @GiladEdelman. More content moderators just mean more bad moderation. The very concept of content moderation assumes a simplistic model of content and ignores

Rory Turnbull

_roryturnbull

German and English words are usually pretty similar. Maus~mouse, Milch~milk, Wasser~water, sechs~six, Vater~father. But the German word for horse, "Pferd", is nothing like English. What happened? A thread. /1 English

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

On my third day as the host of @Tweetistorian, I will tweet about how the relationship between Palestinians and the radical left in W-Germany changed after the Six-Day War. 1/16

Anurag Shukla

Anuraag_Shukla

Thread warning: A long thread coming on the life and work of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, a world-renowned Kenyan writer, scholar, and social activist. His seminal work, "Decolonising the Mind" is

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

THREADWatch THIS.There's absolutely no doubt that @realDonaldTrump understands and almost certainly speaks Arabic.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEdQr1wjXIs When Trump can't understand the heavily accented English of an Arabic-Spea

Peter

trading_peter

Every exchange that doesn't provide a solid, well maintained API is missing out big time imo.I'm not just talking about having a fast, reliable API but also a top tier

The Rude Pundit

rudepundit

You've probably seen the screenshot of the sexist first paragraph of that wretched shitpile of a "column" in the WSJ by Prof. (not Dr.) Joseph Epstein. The whole thing is

Jesse Tomlinson

tom_trans

David Bellos: the world's first fully elaborated writing system was in place to train language interpreters - Sumerian to Acadian We are now talking about bilingual tablets. No not technology.

Reza Roboubi

RezaRob

1: @Onyothi thank you so much for explaining the issues and erosion that has happened to various languages, and the lack of internet access in certain rural areas. By the

We are R-Ladies

WeAreRLadies

I started this thread with the intention of discussing different types of data pipeline collaborators I interact with as an R programmer/data scientist - but instead it evolved into a

Tony Connelly

tconnellyRTE

The EU will seek an extension to the deadline by which the free trade agreement with the UK must be ratified, @rtenews has learned. Two sources have said member states

gambs@正義の味方

gambsVNs

The difference being that by making shitty prose more flowery or whatever it is you want me to do, I am actively changing what the author said and how they

David Burge

iowahawkblog

It was a good run, English language The writing was on the wall when the verbing of nouns started I guess I do, a little. Thee and thou were just

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