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7 votes
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The history of (American) Sign Language
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The polyglots of Dardistan - At the crossroads of south and central Asia lies one of the world’s most multilingual places, with songs and poetry to match
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The philosophical reason you shouldn’t call people liars
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A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick (1729)
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Reading to improve language skills? Focus on fiction rather than non-fiction
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Language learning thread #1 - Share your progress, tips and questions
As discussed and suggested here. What are you learning? How is it going? Share your progress, tips and tricks. Ask other learners questions. Writing in non-English languages is welcome in this...
As discussed and suggested here.
What are you learning? How is it going? Share your progress, tips and tricks. Ask other learners questions.
Writing in non-English languages is welcome in this thread if you want to practice, but please at least include a Google Translate or Deepl translation in a foldable paragraph, using
<details>[your translation]</details>
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Interesting histories: Female — Male — Woman — Man
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Mike the headless chicken
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Mechanization and monoculture
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With Stalinist architecture, a prominent bust of Lenin and posters extolling the motherland, Pyramiden is the abandoned Soviet mining town in Norway's Arctic
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The six villains of language learning
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A homework task prompts kids to reflect deeply on learning, and its limits
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How Mormon missionaries learn new languages in 6-9 weeks
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Chasing the treasure fox
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What are your linguistic idiosyncrasies?
In a previous topic, people discussed their pet peeves, but that's not what this post is about. The idea is not to list (or rant about...) the ways in which others use language incorrectly or...
In a previous topic, people discussed their pet peeves, but that's not what this post is about. The idea is not to list (or rant about...) the ways in which others use language incorrectly or annoyingly, but rather to talk about our own habits and preferences both in writing and in speech.
Things like:
- How do you like to talk (complex, simple, formal, informal, brief, lengthy...), and what do you like or dislike listening to?
- Do you have certain words or phrasing patterns that you either love or avoid at all costs?
- Do you have a tendency to be overly formal? Conversely, are you often too informal, or use too much slang?
- Do you have an inner dialogue?
- If so, how does it sound?
- Do you think exclusively in your mother tongue? If not, which situations bring up specific languages in your head?
- How do you adapt your patterns to different contexts (formal, informal, social, professional, etc)?
- Does that come easy for you?
- Do you prefer to be addressed by specific pronouns which people often get wrong?
- Do you clearly differentiate between serious and jokeful registers?
- Do you use phrasing and tone of voice to differentiate between the two? Does it work?
- Do you sometimes talk too much or too little?
- Do you make a lot of faux pas?
So, what are your linguistic idiosyncrasies? In what ways is your use of language particular, odd, or peculiar? Let's begin!
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Beside the point? Punctuation is dead, long live punctuation
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My students cheated... a lot
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Interactive International Phonetic Alphabet
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Weird Weapons - 'Bike' chain flail
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How politics poisoned the Evangelical church
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Deep dive into the history of Kennywood's Old Mill ride, the cancelled Garfield theme park, and the infamous Garfield's Nightmare dark ride
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Letters from the loneliest post office in the world
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Who made these circles in the Sahara?
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When is a ‘tank’ not a tank?
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You're not allowed in this cave. But there's a copy.
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Satanic Temple Gathering
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Schools offering “Finnish education” are emerging across Indian cities – activity-based learning over textbook-based, test-oriented education
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The case against the Supreme Court of the United States
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Why the GOP won't deliver on any of their promises (including Roe v. Wade)
@GCR, Ezekiel X: PredictionRoe vs Wade will not, actually be overturnedThis is a [tactical] leaked draft opinion intended to show the base they 'tried'It would be a 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 for the GOP to actually overturnThey lose their most salient wedge issue to dangle in front of evangelicals
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Where Roe went wrong: A sweeping new abortion right built on a shaky legal foundation
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He spurred a revolution in psychiatry. Then he ‘disappeared.’
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The Druzhina - Knights of the Kievan Rus | Units of History
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How to be an incipit
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How men found love in 1800s America was so awful it’s funny
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Poland and the Jews. It’s complicated.
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Did medieval peasants travel?
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Cluster munitions: The banned weapons Russia and the US won't give up
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Greenland offers a roadmap for how to get Inuktut taught in Nunavut's schools
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Is Christmas actually related to the birthday of Sol Invictus?
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How polyester bounced back
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What happened to the debts of conquered countries?
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Protesters denouncing the intention of a far-right group to burn a Quran in Örebro in central Sweden attacked police on Friday, injuring at least nine
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The problem of nationalism
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Neoslavery: The part of US history you've always skipped
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The rules for rulers: How dictatorships work, and why Russia is heading towards a coup
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The Council on National Policy - a shadowy but powerful ultra-right leadership institute
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The world’s fastest bomber: The XB-70 Valkyrie
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The mechanical transmission of power: Stangenkunst
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What do revolutionary new Sudoku techniques teach us about real-world problem solving?
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