#Vocabulary

Kate Clanchy

KateClanchy1

We all know that children have a better capacity than adults for learning language - provided it is by immersion. We know meta-language learning doesn't work so well. No one

colleen

colleentie

people want hard and fast rules for what can be “abusive” (rules abt age gaps in relationships etc) bc it’s easier to pretend that those rules will keep you safe

Stephen Michael Feinstein

Ptr_StephenFein

As one who rejects CRT, I must ask, however, do most Christians who reject CRT also reject Platonism? After all, it was adopted as an analytical system but Christianized. Plato

Brianne Benness

bennessb

I feel like every day there are new reasons for building more precise vocabulary that phases out using visible & invisible as a self-evident disability binary.It means such different things

Alex Arrelia

AlexArrelia

I’ll also go on another Orwell tangent: Conservatives love calling any new “woke” word that enters common usage as “Orwellian”, because they don’t want to be “forced” by social pressure

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.

Blair Nathan

Blair_A_Nathan

Idk how much fraud there was, or whether it was decisive. I hope we find out.But in the meantime, I have advice for the millions of Trump voters who believe

Matt Lynch

Mathew_Lynch44

THREAD: a variety of resources for use with A Christmas Carol. First up: 25 x 5 - a - Day low-stakes Retrieval Practice quizzes, like these 1/ 2. A series

Hena J.

HenaJBryan

Hi. Hey. Hello. I'm back to rant about overintellectualising conversations. Firstly, no one is a natural academic as academia is based on reading, research and scholarship. Secondly, it only counts

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s_moonia

Recently (by that I mean over the past two weeks) I’ve been reading more indie novels written by Pakistani authors (Ali Sethi, Saba Imtiaz) and it’s really cool to see

gozi

lightskintiger

now’s a great time to talk about how bastardized black culture becomes in furry spaces, y’all take whatever we create to boost your own clout and standing, yet show no

جویریہ

juvified

words like "extremist", "radical", "terrorist" etc. are used to dehumanise muslims all over the world. delete these words from your vocabulary. if anybody uses these words seriously, they are not

Yeerk.P ❤️

PYeerk

These rhetorical templates basically exist to convert ppl with different kinds of trauma into neoliberal shock troops trying to 'abolish' any human relationship in which trauma is possible, which is

Anthony We Need a Green Recovery Simpson-Pike

SimpsonPike

I do think it matters that most well known and mediatised left-wing commentators who want to communicate leftist ideas to the electorate come from mainly two universities and so share

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alwxysyouljp

here’s a thread on aaveRight now, aave is so entwined with social culture and “internet speak” that there really is no way to police (for lack of better words) the

Claire

ClaireRedacted

Corbynistas insist on reinstating dear leader because they know no one can hate on them Jews like he does.No other leftist leader has ever had the guts and pluckiness to

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