Language and Linguistics
41 Threads
The only thing you really need to understand about progressives is that 20 year olds will walk into a room and literally say “you can’t use that word anymore“ and they really, trul...
@cirnosad Gog represented the Yamnaya people & Magog their Proto-Indo-European Pontic–Caspian steppe homeland, not fucking Khazaria several millennia later. https://t.co/E8uvAgyFtn
skill that im developing from the threshold-crossing* is abt Text, their referencing processes, and their similarity w/ disembodiment in the presentation of bodies. basically it's...
Also, public service announcement: Please stop using "Bantu" as a synonym for "black African." It makes you sound like an idiot with a degree in race science from Twitter universit...
time to revisit the topic of ANGLISH. anglish is an umbrella term for a style of english that tries to remove as much foreign influence as possible. prefixes, suffixes, nouns, all...
“The oldest, shortest words— "yes" and "no"— are those which require the most thought.” — Pythagoras https://t.co/NjUdp1seyq
Millennial culture was focused on the shock value of profanity— Zoomers will consider this passé https://t.co/Ve9uYg7Cs8
The 8 prohibited ways of reciting the Quran. With examples. 🧵
An issue that early Qur’an readers encountered was لا تأمنا (lā ta’mannā) in Q12:11: They (the brothers of Joseph) said, “O father! What’s with you that you don’t trust us with Jos...
The whole ideology of Judaism is centered around the rejection of Christ and their hate for him was so strong that it lead to the birth of the word we all know today: KlKE 🧵 And...
I have noticed that the discussion of antisemitism in connection to the Gaza offensive has led some people to claim that Arabs, like Jews, are Semites. I would like to shed light o...
I see that this line of argumentation from a comment is still in use among Muslim circles. How one argues about the Songs of Solomon is not my concern, but the way it is phrased he...
👨⚖️Policies of British Empire In India: Orientalism Classical Liberalism Utilitarianism Evangelicalism & Various reasons for its introduction in India. A Thread 🧵:
- and then you could build up an alphabet of depictions of sounds from these drawings - and then you could lay these letters out in a row to represent the sequence that they are ut...
The List Of Quran's Stop And Pause Signs.⏹️⏯️🌟💫🌹 THREAD. https://t.co/1CjH7YFG2l
cited extensively in my article. 2. Lara Harb, Arabic Poetics. 3. Marcel Kurpershoek, Arabian Romantic. This is a great work, and has the original Arabic (Nabaṭī dialect) side by s...
I have listened, I have learned, I have done the work, and still I have no idea why "unhoused" is better" than "homeless"
A treasure trove on the Arabic dialect spoken in 11th century Sicily/Tunis, in the guise of a series of corrections of their solecisms https://t.co/Mji0ZLPxNo
Not until the Zend language was known to European philologists. Zend-avesta was first published by Anquetil Du Perron in 1771 (after he returned from India in 1762). Excerpt:"Afte...
Kinda wish I grew up speaking a Dravidian language in addition to the ones I know, like say if I grew up in Chennai or Mangalore, I would know Tamil or Kannada too. I find Dravidia...
Speaking Hindi is a touchy subject in India. In Bambaiya Hindi - the dialect spoken in the city of Mumbai in Maharashtra state - "tu" derives its meaning from Marathi and is not cl...
“Nikah” means f*ck just like “aurat” means c*nt. Urdu is such a beautiful language. It’s speakers use words they don’t understand. https://t.co/diixdx2H4g
a friend pointed out that i’m good at coming up with distinctive phrases and this is a fun little eg to trace because you can see how it happened in real time (“I don’t need to be...
the word "advice" literally means – look at it, ad-vise– "in my view", "it seems to me", "how I see it". it's so unhinged that it's come to mean something more like "prescriptive i...