#Language

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,

The Native

Zuko_Godlimpi

Ngugi observes that “language is a carrier of a people’s values and culture.” Mastery of a language, then, entails mastery of the way in which the speakers of that language

Paul McLaughlin

paul_g_mclaugh

Had a bad couple of days on twitter dealing with unscientific insanity, so going to try a break from twitter or at least from TRA engagement.Just because you want something

Luca Dellanna

DellAnnaLuca

ON EDUCATION & DEFAULTSImagine if, to learn Spanish, people used to go live for one year in a Spanish-speaking country.Then, someone said, "Nah, let's have them sit for 4 years

John Taylor

realJohn_Taylor

What George Orwell got right (and wrong) about language. A thread.If I weren't a Latter-day Saint I'd be drunk right now, maybe.1/24 2/24 It's late and I'm reminiscing about the

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yakiimm

Brief history of #Amharic Thread(I kinda did this during my sophomore year for a Linguistics paper so...... “just trust me bro”)#Ethiopia During the #Axumite Kingdom, the official language was Ge’ez,

Maurice J Casey

MauriceJCasey

Want some really obscure Irish political history trivia? The Ecology Party of Ireland was the only political party formed in 20th century Ireland whose first chair was a committed Esperantist.https://twitter.com/sendboyle/status/13344742220

despondent Moon satellite

sadmoonanalog

why are indians so obsessed with the narrative of credentialism? (asking this as purebred ethnic indian daughter of indian immigrants) also trying to create a taxonomy of indian cultural narratives

Gill R

thespiralquirk

"Inclusivity" A short thread.We're told we mustn't say "women" when talking about female biology because it excludes transmen and females who identify as "non-binary".That's not the reason. It's

The Black Emma Frost♦️🏳️‍🌈 (they/them) #Autistic

iwritecoolstuff

why do so many leftists still say r*t*rd?????is ableism that low on the list of priorities for y'all????? It's really interesting how people say they want to be educated on

Danya Glabau

allergyPhD

One of the things I want readers to know about the Cyborg Manifesto is that it's mostly about mundane technologies and modes of organizing work + family that hugely predate

Anurag Shukla

Anuraag_Shukla

Thread warning: A long thread coming on the life and work of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, a world-renowned Kenyan writer, scholar, and social activist. His seminal work, "Decolonising the Mind" is

Motherfoclóir: Lois

Motherfocloir

thread // lá 1~ why thousands of teenagers turn their backs on the Irish language in early life, and what can be done to instill a 'grá don teanga' in

Hanna EK

HannaEK6

Why should a language scholar from Finland care about decolonization? “All I wanna do is study languages, and Finland never had any colonies. Why should I care?” I’m glad you

Susan&

Radio_Collectiv

Why we, a traumagenic system with DID, support all system types:We're not in your head. We have no idea what is going on over there. Therefore we can't judge.But for

Piotr Szymański

niedakh

Arguments made by @emilymbender & @timnitGebru's seem controversial for En-NLP model building community because the scale of available data may give one an intuition that it's large enough to actually

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