#Languages

Has anyone made the change from ops role to dev (not DevOps/SRE)? I've been thinking recently about it and wondering if anyone can share their experiences, thoughts, motivation etc. For
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Who prefers uncomfy facts over comforting lies? Let's find out;1. Brexit can not be reversed. It has happened. It is like trying to un-eat your lunch. The EU has spent
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My Valentine's Day thread(Dating Coach stuff lol)Alota people end up being in unhappy marriages/relationships for several reasons.. One of which could be that, at the time they chose this person,
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A thread on the history of how the SABC was reformed in 1994, and why its current model is so difficult (some would say fundamentally impossible) to make work:/1 The
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Totally Shreya Ghoshal has sung in 23+ languages (professionally in 18+ languages n in concerts 5+ languages! Gonna make a thread with all languages one song.1.Bengali Song's name : Megher
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Are some languages more easily learned than others?What makes a language easy to learn?In a new study /w @mariannedhk & Meyer, we tested whether language learnability is shaped by community
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A random thread on science fiction and the future of language.Why? See my other tweets. It’s Friday night and I’ve been in quarantine with the kids for a week. Plus
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THREAD: How true is it that Somalis share one language, culture and/or ethnicity background? 1/1: The anecdote which says “Somalis share one language, one culture, one ethnicity and one religion”
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chris kreider plays guitar, speaks multiple languages including russian so he can communicate with his teammates, loves reading so much he once tried to start a book club with the
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THEATRE (a thread)I find it so hard to articulate why I think theatre matters. Things that feel magical in a theatre can seem wanky or ridiculous or small written down.
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Java was first released in mid-1995, just 6 months before JS.By 98, when I went to college, Java was already used for all the first level courses in the CS
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Last week I tweeted this. One of the comments argued that the origin of Arabic qamīṣ < Latin camisia is hypothetical. It reminds me of people sometimes say "well [proven
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BBC's global reach increased by 11% yr on yr in 2020 to 468.2m people a week:the highest number ever. BBC News accounts for 438.4m of the total with an annual increase of
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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
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Fun fact: the number of users of American Sign Language is somewhere in the range of half a million to a million.As a language in the US, this puts in
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Here's my long awaited musings on why India and America are mirror images, historically speaking of course... I mean, I love history more than current events so... Columbus was looking
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