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Here’s my humble LGBTQ vocab list in modern Greek! It is by no means exhaustive but I think there’s the essential words. It is preceded by a short introduction, because I thought it was important ;)
Of course if there’s any mistake to correct, or a suggestion to be made, please hit me up :)
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Today is both vyshyvanka day and the remembrance day of the Crimean tartar genocide. I think this is poetic in that way of being unable to escape the tragedy of Ukraine even on a day of pride and unity. It’s like a haunting reminder that no matter what happens, there’s no way to separate horror and honor - tradegy and triumph - Ukraine has become synonymous with the kind of pride that stings.
So here’s your reminder:
Crimea is Ukraine
Russia committed genocide against the tartar people then AND now
The war is not over until Russia is out of the country.
З Днем Вишиванки мої друзі - не забудь Україна 💙💛🇺🇦🌻
Is this anything: a polyglot cookbook with recipes from around the world with each recipe teaching you some words in the language the recipe is from
An experiment:
Read the statement. Pick the word you feel best represents the first question you thought of after reading.
Please reblog if you participate.
am i insane or should masks be mandated for hospitals as a permanent installation. a forever institution. always. covid is an irrelevant factor when hospitals are always full of both very sick and very immunocompromised people..?
This made me think of the intro to medicine class I co-taught last summer. We had a surgical nurse as a guest speaker and she brought up a good point about innovation in healthcare. Not too long ago, surgeons operated without gloves.
Today this is not only seen as unimaginably gross, but also known to be unsafe and the addition of gloves was somewhat slow but now used as standard procedure and not really given second thought.
I feel the same is bound to happen with masks. Transmission of illnesses is a big problem in healthcare environments full of already vulnerable populations, and masks are proven to mitigate it. I hope we soon get to a point where it is standard procedure and no one thinks twice.
Unfortunately, far too many people - even in healthcare - resent masking. America especially. As soon as mandates disappeared, medical professionals who saw the worst of COVID threw them away like they were the problem rather than protection.
The narrative of COVID as something we "just have to live with" is strong, and being pushed by both sides politically. COVID was a stressful strain on everything, and far too many people want to forget about it and pretend it's the past. It's an absolute mass delusion. And virtually no one outside of the chronically ill cares. Because we don't matter; not to average people or to medical professionals.
The sick and the elderly are sacrificed continuously for the benefit of the rest of society. COVID just exposed this further. And increased the number of dead on a daily basis.
The irony? Or maybe karma of it all? Everyone out there just getting COVID again and again is literally making themselves the next disabled person who'll eventually be sacrificed for normalcy. Long COVID and long term disability from COVID are real, and they're coming for everyone who threw away their masks and went "back to normal".
multiple acts of state terror?
So, yes. I consider all of those acts of terror on children, and they were carried out by the State of Missouri, so - state acts of terror.
The Principal and parent council went to Jefferson City multiple times to advocate for this law being revoked. I don't know if they ever got traction on that.
You fell for and helped Anti-trans spam, you idiot. That site is looking for complaints about Missouri's Trans center (a pro trans organization) to get it shut down. They tricked pro-trans people into submitting fake complaints to aid in getting the pro-Trans organization shut down. You were tricked into helping the bad guys BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO CRITICAL THINKING!
I can see the logic here. Repubs will say "we received thousands of reports through this form that people are helping trans people", when in reality there is only 1 report from a nasty transphobe and the rest are spam. 1) They could say that anyway (I am a huge believer [based on plain old observation] that repubs WILL lie, cheat, steal, betray no matter WHAT dems or anyone else says or does, so why not spam/troll the diarrhea pus worms?) 2) It wastes MO gov time, money, energy 3) It makes it impossible to find the 4 "valid" complaints from the TERF, KKK, Evangelical, and Rush Limbo Fan Karens 4) It worked because THEY TOOK THE FORM DOWN TODAY! 5) I know from personal experience working at a school in STL city that the MO government is evil and will stop at noting to carry out their evil policies from these kinds of reporting avenues. I witnessed multiple acts of state terror on children and their families when I worked at an elementary school in STL city. The fact that they added captcha and reduced the number of times an IP address could fill in the form before finally shutting it down shows that the spam was hurting their process and therefore protecting transpeople. So, I did think critically about this and have personal experience with the MO gov't enough to know that this was the right thing to do.
"Hur hur we went to a superspreader party in 2023...isn't that funny? I thought covid was over but then we all got sick with covid and sent all our kids to school where their teachers tried to run away from them lolZ. Oh also I'm not going to reflect on the fact that I went to the gym and likely spread more covid to other people before I knew I got the virus.
And the birthday host kept coming up with gifs as the count of covid positive people who got it at the party kept going up! Hilarious!
Anyway wash your hands and stay home if you have symptoms I guess, but of course I'm not going to mention WEARING A MASK ever."
-Jay Hanna
"The Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has confirmed the Covid outbreak on the Neurosurgery Ward and said that it is doing all that it can to ensure the safety of patients."
Everything EXCEPT WEARING MASKS! What in the eugenics is this crap?
EXCLUSIVE: 'We need to do better' - over 14,000 people died with Covid after catching it in hospital
Over 14,000 people in England and Wales died with Covid after catching the virus in hospital - these were all people who had attended for another reason, be it surgery, cancer treatment, or following an accident
By Kieren Williams, March 16, 2023
"More than 14,000 people in England and Wales died with Covid after catching the virus in hospital.
According to official NHS data in England and Wales, 14,047 Brits died in hospital after they caught the virus following admission, whilst at least 69,337 people caught the virus only after having been admitted.
The data, obtained by the Mirror via FOI, shows the extent to which the virus ran rampant in hospitals throughout the pandemic, claiming lives.
Both figures are the minimum and the reality is likely much higher due to a number of trusts not responding to the FOI or not recording the data.
Data covering from March 2020 until August 2022 at the latest, 94 NHS trusts out of 209 responded to the FOI which showed how deaths cause by hospital acquired Covid surged during winter as hospitals filled up with patients.
The 14,047 people had all gone to hospital for something other than Covid and tested negative on admission."
Hesitations and filler words—what linguists sometimes call disfluencies—actually serve an important purpose: they can help signal to the listener that the topic being talked about is a new piece of information that they should pay attention to.
Soooooo tired of seeing the words "unprecedented", "shocking", etc. attached to Tr*mp indictment news in regards to him being a former president.
The whole founding philosophy of the USA is that the president is Some Guy who is a public servant, equal to the rest of the citizens. It should be applauded that criminals, even if they used to be a public servant, get punished for their crimes. It shouldn't be a "shock" if we think justice is ever being served in this country.
I love how her smile just went supernova when he started singing!!
This made me smile so much
“It is a well-documented fact that by the age of 5 monolingual White children will have heard 30 million fewer words in languages other than English than bilingual children of color. In addition, they will have had a complete lack of exposure to the richness of non-standardized varieties of English that characterize the homes of many children of color. This language gap increases the longer these children are in school. The question is what causes this language gap and what can be done to address it? The major cause of this language gap is the failure of monolingual White communities to successfully assimilate into the multilingual and multidialectal mainstream. The continued existence of White ethnic enclaves persists despite concerted efforts to integrate White communities into the multiracial mainstream since the 1960s. In these linguistically isolated enclaves it is possible to go for days without interacting with anybody who does not speak Standardized American English providing little incentive for their inhabitants to adapt to the multilingual and multidialectal nature of US society. This linguistic isolation has a detrimental effect on the cognitive development of monolingual White children. This is because linguistically isolated households lack the rich translanguaging practices that are found in bilingual households and the elaborate style-shifting that occurs in bidialectal households. This leaves monolingual White children without a strong metalinguistic basis for language learning. As a result, many of these monolingual White children lack the school-readiness skills needed for foreign language learning and graduate from school having mastered nothing but Standardized American English leaving them ill-equipped to engage in intercultural communication.”
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Excerpt from a satirical blog post from The Educational Linguist that makes a good point about which language skills we value as a society and the problems with talking about a “language gap”.
(via lingrix)
I’m actually annoyed that this as meant as satirical because I took it completely seriously, and I think it should be
Hello! Sorry for the stupid question, but what is wrong with using flags to represent languages?
There is simply no 1:1 correspondence, or only in a few special cases like The Faroe Islands, and maybe Nauru or Kiribati.
Homogeneous nation-states are an illusion, mostly carried by the similarity between big national languages and country names (Spanish : Spain, French : France, etc.). Furthermore, language borders rarely coincide with political borders to an extent that would justify equaling nations and languages.
Problem type 1: one language – many countries
Which country flag should we take?
Problem type 2: minority, diaspora and suppressed languages
Show me one Kurdish speaker who’d accept being represented by e.g. the Turkish flag.
Problem type 3: languages considered dialects
Yes, Catalunya has a flag. But then what about Andorran Catalan? And no, suggesting the Spanish flag would set a cat among the pigeons...
Problem type 4: one language – or two – or three?
Which flag to take for the undivided linguistic entity?
Problem type 5: one county – many languages
So, which language gets represented by the Papua New Guinean, the Nigerian, the Indonesian, the Brazilian, the South African flag? All? None? Which flag should the other languages get, then?
And to open yet another can of worms:
Problem type 6: The residual category
Which flags should these languages get:
See here for an overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_official_languages_by_country_and_territory
without hrt christmas is just cismas
this pun works so beautifully well i cant believe the english language allows us to do this
You know what I think is really cool about language (English in this case)? It’s the way you can express “I don’t know” without opening your mouth. All you have to do is hum a low note, a high note, then another lower note. The same goes for yes and no. Does anyone know what this is called?
These are called vocables, a form of non-lexical utterance - that is, wordlike sounds that aren’t strictly words, have flexible meaning depending on context, and reflect the speakers emotional reaction to the context rather than stating something specific. They also include uh-oh! (that’s not good!), uh-huh and mm-hmm (yes), uhn-uhn (no), huh? (what?), huh… (oh, I see…), hmmn… (I wonder… / maybe…), awww! (that’s cute!), aww… (darn it…), um? (excuse me; that doesn’t seem right?), ugh and guh (expressions of alarm, disgust, or sympathy toward somebody else’s displeasure or distress), etc.
Every natural human language has at least a few vocables in it, and filler words like “um” and “erm” are also part of this overall class of utterances. Technically “vocable” itself refers to a wider category of utterances, but these types of sounds are the ones most frequently being referred to, when the word is used.
Reblog if u just hummed all of these out loud as you read them
hello!! i was wondering how it would work if the general term for an animal is masculine, but your animal is a girl (or vice versa). so, in a sentence like "barbara is a beautiful dog", would you say "barbara es un perro bonito" to match up the endings, or because barbara is a girl, would you say "barbara es un perro bonita"? thank you for your help !!
It sort of depends. There's often a base word, and then sometimes they can change.
With dogs it's perro or perra, and with cats it's gato and gata
In your case it would be es una perra bonita "she's a beautiful dog" or more affectionately you might see perrito/a "puppy" or "little dog"; same with gatito/a "kitten" or "little cat"
*Note: This can be hard for some people in English because perra can be used as "bitch" where it is literally the female dog. The same issue happens with zorra "bitch", which is literally "vixen" or "female fox". But it is very common for people to refer to their female dogs as perra when talking about them and using the feminine nouns
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again but it is absolutely an example of civilizational inadequacy that only deaf people know ASL
“oh we shouldn’t teach children this language, it will only come in handy if they [checks notes] ever have to talk in a situation where it’s noisy or they need to be quiet”
My mom learned it because she figured she’ll go deaf when she gets old
My family went holiday SCUBA diving once, and a couple of Deaf guys were in the group. I was really little and I spent most of the briefing overcome with the realization that while the rest of us were going to have regulators in our mouths and be underwater fairly soon, they were going to be able to do all the same stuff and keep talking.
The only reason some form of sign language is not a standard skill is ableism, as far as I can tell.
For anyone interested in learning, Bill Vicars has full lessons of ASL on youtube that were used in my college level classes.
and here’s the link to the website he puts in his videos:
Update: you guys this is an amazing resource for learning asl. Bill Vicars is an incredible teacher. His videos are of him teaching a student in a classroom, using the learned vocabulary to have conversations.
Not only is the conversation format immersive and helpful for learning the grammar, but the students make common mistakes which he corrects, mistakes I wouldn’t have otherwise know I was making.
He also emphasizes learning ASL in the way it’s actually used by the Deaf community and not the rigid structure that some ASL teachers impose in their classrooms
His lesson plans include learning about the Deaf community, which is an important aspect of learning ASL. Knowing how to communicate in ASL without the knowledge of the culture behind it leaves out a lot of nuances and explanations for the way ASL is.
Lastly, his lessons are just a lot of fun to watch. He is patient, entertaining, and funny. This good natured enthusiasm is contagious and learning feels like a privilege and not a chore
And it’s all FREE. Seriously. If you’ve ever wanted to learn ASL
So now all media discourse about media I've never seen and am not familiar with, I think is from Goncharov. About half the time it's actually Homestuck.
A note on Goncharov - I find it fascinating that a film is being created through analysis and critique of said film, instead of the other way around how it normally works.
I've seen people say Goncharov is a film created through oral tradition, but it's not quite accurate to me. Goncharov is being created through literary/cinematic critique of it. There is no plot that has been laid out but rather one inferred through analyses of scenes and characters.
So now all media discourse about media I've never seen and am not familiar with, I think is from Goncharov. About half the time it's actually Homestuck.
A note on Goncharov - I find it fascinating that a film is being created through analysis and critique of said film, instead of the other way around how it normally works.
