#English

Shaun McBride

KernowShaun

Thread.Found an FT article from 2008 that I was featured in about Cornish identity. No wonder we're confused about our identity when English writers say things like this (a breakdown):https://www.ft.com/content/e7b328fa-c1d2-11dd-a350-0

Juan Zabala

BornPoor

My sister and I who were born in Dominican Republic did horrible on the SATs. My brothers who were both American born, and who had siblings who spoke English, did

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hyyhddaeng

Okay I’m going to start my thread on Namjoon’s English from the perspective of an ESL teacher (me) and before I get started I want to talk briefly about what

Dr Craig Dalȝell

thecommongreen

Under this system, my job as Head of Research for an influential think-tank is considered "unskilled" and I'm only allowed to work it because of where I'm from.https://twitter.com/pritipatel/status/1262430422954389504 Let&

Aaron Mc Nicholas

aaronMCN

Some proposed amendments to the Immigration Ordinance are now getting even more media attention.So it's worth sharing the HK government's explanation for the change, which some have described as a

madeline odent

oldenoughtosay

English is an extremely annoying language to speak because every country that uses it has its own rules of pronunciation, including England, which has normal English but also place-name English,

James Palmer

BeijingPalmer

"Americans refer to the center of their country as the 'heartland,' indicating their belief that American is the 'heart' of the world." (this is going to be an Occidentalism thread,

Izak ☭ Novák

izak_novak

I'm truly terrified by how sophisticated, hegemonic and effective anti-China propaganda has become. The English speaking world has been so relentlessly blanketed in the two "Big Lies" about China (HK/Xinjiang)

Associate Professor TheDude!

ThisAndThatDude

This whole #NavreetSingh issue seems quite interesting- too much conflicting information in all news items. There is more to this than meets the eye- but not in the way he

Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)

debreese

1) PBS is airing an "unvarnished" documentary of Laura Ingalls Wilder later this month. As I look over the materials on the site and the associated contest, it doesn't strike

Danny Boy

Care2much18

When you look around Europe, the picture is totally desperate. Hospitals and ICU's are in turmoil, positivity and case rates are through the roof and essentially this is disastrous.A fair

Ron Skolnik

Ron_Skolnik

Before folks start to go gaga re Bahrain-Israel announcement, short thread of historical reminders for context: 1. Meretz's Yossi Sarid was the first Israeli minister (under Rabin of Oslo) to

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Seriousleeeee

Thread: Coventry for first vaccine was symbolic, why? A quick dig found saying 'Send them to Coventry' meaning 'executions' (hangings) from the 'Covin' tree. From there I find Alice in

Tom Holland

holland_tom

Wondering if any novel has ever had as profound an influence on how the English-speaking world understand a period of history as A Tale Of Two Cities, and the only

Michael Hobbes

RottenInDenmark

I think this is why the "cancel culture" moral panic gets under my skin so much. *So* many of Americans' false understandings of people and events come from the fact

J. Moufawad-Paul

MLM_Mayhem

Reading the recent English translation of Mbembe's *Politiques de l'inimitié* because my French was not good enough to really process the 2016 French version, due to Mbembe's lyricism and theoretical

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