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Efam Harris
iefamharris
Always remember this rule: “‘A’ is for consonant sounds, ‘An’ is for vowel sounds.”Like we have consonants and vowels in the letters of the alphabets, we also have them in
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JIm Jacques
JacquesJIm
I am going to try an explanatory linguistics thread in the spirit of the brilliant @DannyBate4. Why do we say “Julius Caesar” the way we do in English? The Romans
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Z.
qrt_hdsty
Yes-no questions have a rising intonation in many languages, some of which have a question marker in addition, like Chinese ma 吗. In Tunisian, this rising intonation is accompanied by
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one wag
Theophite
how has a single person on earth ever learned to speak georgian ah yes, the aorist screeve, which i guess isn't a character in jabaa the hutt's palace georgian verbs
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Jellyfish Review
JellyfishReview
fun fact:Red, the colour, used to have a long vowel sound - rede - and if you meet a Mr Read or Mrs Reid then their name probably derives from
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Imar Y. Koutchoukali 🌐 🐿
koutchoukalimar
Okay kids, for New Year's, let's talk about vowels and where to put them. Especially with regards to Arabic. Recently, I responded to a tweet about the origin of the
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Akiva Local
AkivaLocal
I have been thinking a lot about Lucy Calkins' Facebook post about how she is "rebalancing" Balanced Literacy. (Spoiler: My thoughts are not positive). So, I'm going to do a
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Tulaib
ZaadFather
So in Urdu, as far as I can tell, when CvCvCv(C) words are borrowed from Arabic and the medial vowel is a short vowel, it is deleted. So we get
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jenna
jennardamico
context: my academic emails have they/them. i wrote my ital prof a note thanking her for the semester and in her response she had a couple words where the ending
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Marijn "i before j" van Putten
PhDniX
One of the interesting, but seldom described features of Classical Arabic (i.e. "that which the grammarians describe") is the presence of a front rounded vowel ǖ [yː]. This is said
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Ewen Lee
ewen201
I feel like doing a thread on #HK place names and the absolute treasure trove of cool historical snippets of 1800s #Cantonese that we can see in their romanizations bc
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Aoife
aoinifh
Mōrena, I haven’t done a thread in ages, but was asked to do one on New Zealand-English so here goes First up,from here on in I’ll be calling it Aotearoa-English,
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JIMIN VOCAL | Threads & analyses
PJM_vocal
Park jimin’s golden, insane and unmatched vocal in crystal snow . A thread Before we start let’s acknowledge the fact that jimin’s vocal is one of the best auditory
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Shaun Lawson
shaunjlawson
Jeremy Corbyn is in the pub having a quiet drink with his wife. Tracy-Ann Oberman takes pictures of him, plasters them all over Twitter and accuses him of 'following her'.https://twitter.com/TheMendozaWoman/status/135806801297319526
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Indian Linguist
IndianLinguist
Unlike Bambaiya, Calcutta's Hindustani dialect much less known.But it has got (maybe for the first time ever) documented thanks to social media + rap culture.Enjoy this cheeky song (NSFW).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap1JfdawpVA Heav
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Cavid ⛧
cavidaga
In Azerbaijani we don't say "you are not important person", instead we say "adın it dəftərində yoxdur"; which literally means "your name isn't on the dogs' notebook". This saying comes
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