#Spoken

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whatabirdy

Anyways, thread on Scottish languages, both modern and ancient (Gaelic, Scots, English, Pictish, and Norn) for anyone who's interested! Firstly, let's divide the most common by language family. Gaelic and

Viet Thanh Nguyen

viet_t_nguyen

Horrendous crimes against Asian Americans have happened recently, and it is right that Asian Americans have spoken out against them. But we can be against anti-Asian violence and not resort

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barbi3dreamz

the appropriation of AAVE (a thread) AAVE stands for African American Vernacular English.It is typically incorrectly perceived as “bad English”, “ghetto language”, and/ or as labeled as “blaccent”. yet, AAVE

Andy Maciver

akmaciver

Wee thread: Will bow out of the #schoolsreopening #blendedlearning debate now - said my piece. Thought long and hard about saying anything as I usually wouldn’t get involved, but as

Krishna Kumar Pandey कृष्ण कुमार पाण्डेय

ikrishna_pandey

Whenever they meet me, they ask “Do you speak Bihari? Is that your mother tongue?”“No, I don’t”, my perennial reply. I aggravate their perplexity by saying

Curtis Houck

CurtisHouck

Remember when Steve Scalise was shot and some on the left and in the media insinuated he had it coming and thus deserved it? I do! Here was @CBSThisMorning wondering

Mayor Ted Wheeler

tedwheeler

This afternoon I was made aware of concerns within the community that federal agents may be authorized to use live ammunition on demonstrators this evening. Given the deployment of federal

Kurt Nice

KurtNiceHHL

The discussion should not be about crumbling infrastructure due to lack of investment and poor regulations versus a non-existent Green New Deal plan. Moving toward renewable energy is something Democrats

Dermot Looney

dlooney

When I announced two years ago that I would be finishing up as a Cllr, I got lots of nice tweets, emails and letters.But only one national politician sent me

Sacha Coward

sacha_coward

I find every year, as a historian, I need to reflect on the vocabulary I use when talking about the world. Last year it was changing from BC/AD to BCE/CE.

Chris Herd

chris_herd

Pollution reduction: many companies we've spoken to care massively about the environmental impact that eradicating the office – and the commute – will have 108 million tons of Co2 less

TheLifestyleTourist

ms_tourist

Nkandla ‘s rich history & heritage is never spoken about. From a tourism perspective, Nkandla is a gem that waiting for be fully explored....There is a place called “ Isigqiki

Sarah Esterman

SarahEsterman

Very tired of all of the marketing conferences that have mostly white speakers. I'm also very tired of the same well-known, basically hero-worshipped, white speakers at all of the conferences.

Rasmus

Rakapital

Interesting news from $MXCT today, I did not expect them to raise any money before the IPO. Following the trading update and after having spoken to both Doug and Amanda

zev handel

ZevHandel

I like thinking about familiar things that turn out to have surprising back stories. The modern Chinese second-person singular pronoun 你 (Mandarin nǐ, Cantonese nei5 or lei5) is one of

Bill Kristol

BillKristol

1. This thread is based on recent conversations with people whose information and judgment I trust, who in turn have spoken candidly with Trump appointees still on the inside.Here's a

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