#Linguistics

Lameen Souag

lameensouag

"Nhopiw" and contact linguistics: A threadIn Algerian Arabic, French verbs are borrowed all the time, almost always by putting -a/i at the end, like Arabic weak verbs:"pray!" ṣəlli!"freeze!" kõžli!"I

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KasHalfFull

A @khanacademy SmartHistory video just came up in my YouTube recommended. I watched EVERY single one of those back in 2013 so now I’m rewatching them and reliving childhood memories.

Unfriendly Black²foot Óṫ’’k̇oaṗi•siak̇īī

Pandabbadon

Y’all wanna talk about the pervasiveness of consumption of Black Culture with Black people removed from it on this here Thursday night?(I’m bout to anyway: Thread) So, I’ve noticed cause

rob 🌱

robvillainy

My Top 10 Rappers Of All Time:(THREAD) Honorable Mentions: Joey Bada$$, Pusha T, Scarface, Phonte, Guru, Ice Cube, Prodigy, Rakim, MF DOOM, and 2pac.This list is based on rapping ability

Crown Gamer

CrownGamer901

Okay so this is what went down in my linguistics class yesterday and today:Our professor told us the week prior we would have an "immersive experience" and yesterday told us

Andrzej Kozlowski

akoz33

I was listening today to a lecture (on youtube) on Covid by Russia’s famous pneumonia expert, Academician Alexander Chuchalin. He was for years one of the top Kremlin doctors: he

Professor Fleming

alwaystheself

Pleasure reading.. Fanon in conversation with @MsAfropolitan "Even feminist analyses of power wade through the swamps of patriarchy trying to find their roots, when everyone knows that the more

Adam Schembri

AdamCSchembri

Thanks to Asger Bergman, I have learned something I have been wondering about for many years: the true story behind the Danish Sign Language sign 'tree' in Klima and Bellugi's

Veera M. Rajagopal

doctorveera

India has a high genetic diversity. Do you know what shaped this diversity? If your guess is geography, you're wrong. @AritraBose90 and team show the present day genetic structure of

Christian Lambino

jcmlambino12

Why the term "Filipinx" might problematic as a linguistics major from a sociolinguistic perspective; a threadhttps://twitter.com/PhilippineStar/status/1301731713979047936 The issue comes here: @Dictionarycom now thinks that Filipi

Muhammad Al Gharib

MuhammadIbnMus6

Thread: Refuting this ignorant individual who thinks he has it all sorted outhttps://twitter.com/deadlycause/status/1333771182147993600 first claim about tawheed is nonsensical and shows fault in logic. The oneness of Allah doesn’t imply

EngLangBlog

EngLangBlog

Having a bit of a binge session of online linguistics courses this week. Yesterday was Jane Setter, tonight it's three speakers from Lancaster University Starting off by looking at

Ta'o Collective

Tao_Collective

[[OOC :As a coda to this discussion, I would like to offer an example of Han script being used to write my ancestral language, using Hokkien phonetics. It really illustrates

Ian Mac Eochagáin

maceochi

A #Finland thread in English for Independence Day. In random order, my favourite things about the country I’ve lived in for 9 years. 1/n The language(s). My first love will

Ante D. Luvian

uncle_deluge

I mentioned this because I think it's in stark contrast with the trope that all cultures have a "flood myth." In this case, I think there's enough evidence to show

Brett Goldstein 🚀🏠🌴

thatguyBG

Metaphor is one of the most powerful tools for writers, but also technologists.It goes far beyond comparison. @gerogelakoff's "Conceptual Metaphor Theory" is the basis for understanding how every new technology

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