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Melon 🍈 🌈

writerofscratch

Who were the people reading the Nippon Times (predecessor of @japantimes) during WWII? ・English-speaking foreigners in Japan? I doubt there were many of those at that time.・Japanese people wanting to

🐙 President-Elect Seriously 🇬🇧🇺🇸

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

David Burge

iowahawkblog

It was a good run, English language The writing was on the wall when the verbing of nouns started I guess I do, a little. Thee and thou were just

C.A.Bond 🏴‍☠️

CBonduk

@yhazony article on Burkean conservatism in American Affairs is interesting. This is, probably, the cutting edge of conservatism....https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/05/what-is-conservatism/ This is just ROFL :"every page of [For

From Frank w/ Love

_stroopwaffle

Short localization thread Something that's been bothering me for a while now is how the traditional 'EFIGS' is still being pushed to localize your game in. Italian, aka the 'I',

Stephen Dziedzic

stephendziedzic

Jaishankar is quite dismissive. He argues some Western liberals are uncomfortable with contemporary India simply because they have not grappled with the way it has democratised. Its political leaders are

N1_Nasty_1

1Naasty

RItuals on Human Sacrifice.These texts were copied from Sanskrit to English in 1790.These were said to be copied from older texts from Egypt but before Egyptians were there. 1of 3

Geeky Red - Read Pinned Tweet

GeekyRed_

3 Things you need to 'Unlearn' to become a Pro WriterYour school teacher was wrong about this// Thread // 1. You need to know complicated English words to write wellNo!

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ssttttl

i don’t know who i am hoping for this to reach... i will probably only keep it in english beings that there are lots of international fans... i need to

Lauren

sapheneias

Druids inhabited north-western Europe around 2000 years ago. The modern English word comes from the Latin ‘druidēs’; this is derived from the Proto-Celtic ‘druwides’ (‘oak-knower’), which itself is rooted in

#womenintranslation

Read_WIT

#WITMonth is 50 days away, so... it's time for another 50 day countdown! Every day for the next 50, I'll be spotlighting one woman writer from around the world who

Dylan Lewis

IAmDylanLewis

Want to go down a fun C18 #HerBook rabbit hole with me through England and Germany and back again?! Buckle up!!! A .... 1/#BookHistory #FeministBibliography #C18 This book was owned

Christie

ChristieNold

I'd like to take a moment to chat about this line, "...compared with their better-educated peers they will suffer a poverty of language and cultural reference" - MG, WSJ First,

Tyler (cult member)

IrritatingBoyTy

Now that it's the fourth of july, it's once again time for me to be pretentious about history, so if anyone wants to hear me rant about why the american

The Pigpen

ThePigpenComic

ENGLISHWhat is Poly? 1/5 What is Poly? 2/5 What is Poly? 3/5 What is Poly? 4/5 What is Poly? 5/5

Bad Linguistics and Orwell Takes (莫去我厝拜年)

Bad_Linguistics

[PINNED THREAD]Hello, welcome to Bad Linguistics Takes!This thread will explain several things about this account. Please read if you'd like!Any corrections or additions will be at the end of the

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