#Language

Hillel

hillelogram

This is an interesting question, and while I reject the argument that FP is "better" than OOP I think it's worth discussing complex forces at play here. First of all,

ExpectingRain

ExpectingRain_

SHIT! It’s happening, guys!!!D5D55D5X5 = December 25!!!C before D! Christmas before declas!10 days. Brings us to January 3/4. Before the Georgia elections. Before the Pence Card.We NEED to know the

Śrīkānta

shrikanth_krish

Language wars are a constant feature of Indian public life. Twitter being no exceptionBut amidst the language squabbles, we tend to reflect less on the root cause of all thisThe

Philip Seifi

seifip

Born in a country, which was on the verge of collapse a mere one year after my birth, I never found a place which I could call home.But no, I

Gail Simone

GailSimone

I was thinking of somethin while building the @LEGO_Group Disneyland Train Station set @MatthiasBe got us for Christmas.It's an odd little thought but it won't go away.1/ It sounds like

nome

NomeDaBarbarian

Someone please define for me the distinction between someone being "Cancelled" and "Paying a real reputational price."https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1356438623827226624 It looks like, in follow-up posts, he very

TravaTheTravelerOfTheMultiverse

TravelingBeing

CW: ableism.I’ve said this before, but why is it that nearly every movie with an autistic main character character is about the fact that that person is autistic? Why not

Prof. Megan Goodwin

mpgPhD

a) stanford encyclopedia of philosophy: live it, learn it, love itb) theory is a foreign language, even when it looks like it was written in englishyou gotta read that shit

Marc Ó Cathasaigh TD

MarcKC_Green

Next, it's important to have read the full text of the motion. It goes well beyond the pay to include travel and accommodation costs, abolition of all fees for frontline

Amy Forrester

amymayforrester

I’m getting royally irritated with the hyperbolic language being used to talk about kids and learning coming from folks like @halfon4harlowMP . Today I had to film an assembly picking

EverydayPhonology

PhonologyDaily

Name & language family: Western Kewa (Trans-New Guinea)Region: N° of speakers: 100,000 (2001)W. Kewa's consonants are remarkably unbalanced; only 2 voiceless ones /t/ and /q/, while the voiced ones are

Theodore

genderpunktheo

I don’t know whether this is a hill worth dying on or not and I’m not trying to upset or exclude anyone. But just... please let nonbinary people have labels

Reesus Patriot™

ReesusP

How many of you believe that Trump committed Treason with Russia? Trump must be held accountable. Distracting with twitter while treasoning, covering for Putin's murder of United States soldiers, is

Nadine Batchelor-Hunt

nadinebh_

Ways to make journalism less classist:- don’t make degrees a requirement - do outreach work with working-class school kids (particularly GCSE age)- offer working-class people paid apprenticeships (regardless of age)-

Dr Louise Moody

drlouisejmoody

1. Reinstating a thread I was asked to delete. I now believe I was asked to on a false pretext. Though I cannot recall specifically what I said, the gist

Friend of the Talking Bird

DrugGovoruna

Since I keep contributing to inequality/IQ/meritocracy threads, let me state my own position. I have written these things on Twitter before; they are unoriginal. What I see around me is

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