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🍉🗝️ || he il él он ‖ queer southerner || (con-)linguistics & minoritized language enjoyer ‖ SWU ★ ☕️ ‖ swiftie || 🎓 tesol / french / IR ‖ (post)christian ||
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i’m not claiming this is homophobic to do in and of itself, but i am pointing out that a man who method-acted a psychopath couldn’t bring himself to play a queer role in a script he himself helped write and produced
Joaquin Phoenix has dropped out of a gay romance movie five days before filming was set to begin, with a source telling Variety that he got “cold feet.”
Sources tell Variety that his role cannot be recast, the crew is now out of work, and losses could exceed seven figures.
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y’all need to start bringing the “if he wanted to he would” sentiment to uncle sam. bc, y’all, if the gvmt can move this fast to ban tiktok, then they just don’t want us to have access to healthcare, education, child care, etc.
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i don't think straight ppl understand that queer ppl celebrating pride in the US this year are up against a growing crowd whose response is "we will kill you"
pride might be a party to you, or a festival, or whatever, but for queer ppl it's celebrating life in the face of death
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okay??? release him???
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every QT of this headline is like
Mental-health crisis from pandemic was minimal, study suggests
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just a little reminder on our union fridge that applies to everyone (yes even you)🖤✨
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please remember when discussing the south and other republican led states
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i'll add that pride has a long history of being precisely this kind of celebration. through the queer lib movement, through the AIDS crisis – and it will persist now too
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the question will be: do you support queer people, or fascists. there is not a middle ground.
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“union workers are lazy”
so… that’s why i’m standing out in the hot carolina sun for double the length of my shift… unpaid?
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this explicitly demonstrates fascism. gender policing and genocidal erasure? how much more clear could it be.
How the fascist fuck do you ban tribal affiliations in a state called SOUTH DAKOTA
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another update:
Trump is openly calling for states to take up arms against the federal government, which is as close to calling for civil war as you can get without actually using the words. This is an alarming escalation and this situation could spiral out of control very, very quickly.
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continually surprised by how many linguistics/language-adjacent people still believe there are objectively easier or harder languages to learn…
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so conservatives have as many weapons as they want and it’s 2A but as soon as trans people want to have a gun to protect themselves from a legitimate threat, y’all’re scared of gun rights? get fucked.
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stop telling your students that “in the real world…”
they live in the real world. just like you. in fact students are experiencing such an insane about amount of cynicism about the world that they see no value in ANY education 6-12 grade. they don’t see the point.
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three very cool language changes that have happened somewhat recently
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Destandardization is a critical process for anarchist linguistics.
Many incorrectly chalk it up to "oh, so anyone can spell anything anyway they want?"
But in reality, destandardization works to reverse the co-optation of language by the State as an oppressive weapon.
🧵
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@AidanSimardone
totally makes sense. immigration in the US has always been about exploiting labor!
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anti-queer canadians are responding which is puzzling since my post only mentioned one country and it wasn’t Canada
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someone please confirm that the Māori word for “France” is “Wīwī” because of “oui oui” 💀
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this is trans genocide btw
we're moving between stages 6 and 7, possibly 7 and 8, and no one is flinching
It is crickets as Florida forces the majority of its trans population to medical detransition.
crickets.
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i was about to comment about how India, the Philippines, and the Caribbean aren’t on this list but then i realized they explicitly exclude them from being native speakers for… reasons???
(we know the reasons.)
I am once again asking ESL companies to tone down the blatant racism underlying what they consider a "native English speaker"
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id say this is a result of predictable sound changes within germanic and romance languages and not an epiphany had in different places separate from one another
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them: you better not be a cunty linguist doing xenolinguistics to avoid interplanetary conflict when i get back
me:
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people are challenging the existence of the words “Marchioness” and “Cholmondeley” so, let me clear things up 😉
here are their etymologies
Lady Rose Hanbury: Who is the Marchioness of Cholmondeley?
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Today, me and 5 of my coworkers (including our lead organizer) were fired for cleaning and stocking our store in preparation for normal operations following a strike. We all know that’s not the reason. It was a chance to retaliate against workers fighting for their rights.
Starbucks decided to celebrate Labor Day this year by firing 6 workers in Anderson, South Carolina.
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this is a fun exercise in destandardization tbh.
are there any of these that don't get the point across?
My daughter got a label maker from a relative for Christmas and it is truly the gift that keeps on giving. Not sure what I'm going to do when she actually learns to spell properly.
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@stupiddumbdo
@profit_is_theft
well abbott is saying he can break the constitution bc the executive is breaking the constitution so i see the SC more as being the mediator
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fun fact: all of the funding that Amtrak has received since its founding in 1971 is less than one year's funding of the highway system
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Most ppl's current frame of reference for literacy is either "illiterate" (unable to read text) and "literate" (able to read text). However, Freire points out that people are not capable of self liberation if their literacy is confined to text.
Enter complete literacy 🧵
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capitalism requires a subjugated class of workers to remain impoverished and undereducated for it to operate and both major parties continue to support its existence
This NPR is just added to my villain era.
THIS is the question they're asking?
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@D__Cain
i think many of them do not and are confused why this is happening bc they don’t know our history
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this is why linguists laugh when you say you know bc no you don’t
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get in loser, we're using Minecraft to study languages that have relatively view available resources
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Always so fascinating that no matter how small a territory a language is spoken in, it will always face variation. Take, for example, Faroese:
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a phenomenal connection between linguistics and autism, and how what we know about it is changing
tl;dr: it’s possible (even likely) that autism is less of a “social deficiency” disorder, & more like “were speaking two different languages and you’re expecting me to learn yours”
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i was curious so i made a map of terms used for "gasoline" across europe
words related to "benzine" won out by far
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this should be seen as a crime against the population of the south, enacted by their government
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another update:
So now Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt is discussing a civil war between the United States and Texas, Florida, and Oklahoma.
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@ImperialTre
this guy explains the absolutely, purposefully horrendous way they come up with the number of homeless people
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i present, without comment, the two ways the French write the letter “M”
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The answer to my “guess the langauge” game was 🥁🥁🥁🥁
Friulian!
A Rhaeto-Romance language spoken in the northeast of present day Italy.
Ppl may make the mistake of assuming the multitude of languages spoken in Italy are basically the same! I’ll demonstrate how they’re not.
Guess the language?
Bonus points if you guess the translation.
(Correct answers will be in hidden posts)
"Ei, ce stâs fasint?
O vadi al cafè.
Vuelîs vignî cun me?"
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i feel the need to remind everyone of this very real letter of the deseret (mormon) alphabet
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portion of the speech given on the steps of the daughters of the confederacy building in Charleston SC during the
#blacklivesmatter
protest
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Guess the language?
Bonus points if you guess the translation.
(Correct answers will be in hidden posts)
"Ei, ce stâs fasint?
O vadi al cafè.
Vuelîs vignî cun me?"
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@QueerXiChisme
not to mention the “transgendered life” lyric which explicitly misstates transgender as a verb not an adjective and implicitly states that being trans is a choice
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important to remember that transphobia, sexism, AND racism are at play here. concepts of “traditional femininity” are inextricably linked to white supremacy.
Imane Khelif was born a woman from Algeria, where being gay or transgender is a crime. She was cleared to fight at the Olympics by the International Olympic Committee.
The amount of hate and transphobia she's facing is vile, baseless, and harmful to her life. She's a woman.
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will this get as much press as the billionaire’s tin can
At least 35 people feared dead after migrant boat sinks en-route to Spain's Canary Islands
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<Cholmondeley> (pronounced “chum-lee”) comes from Old English <Ċēolmundelēah> meaning “Ceolmund’s clearing”.
<-leigh> / <-lea> are common descendants of <lēah> in English, while <-ley> / <-le> are common in Scots.
“Ceolmund” is a name meaning “protector of ships”.
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@Sattdaddy
@haileyellenburg
@jazbrisack
@andersonsbwu
to clarify, the store voted 18-0 in favor of unionizing. corporate refuses to sit down and bargain with them or take them seriously — hence the strike
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@FutureTD
it is not confirmed that the reason he couldn’t do the movie is bc the role was a queer role
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@ValerieComplex
yes, many of these states committed national guard troops in 2023 and apparently several have announced a commitment to renewing that now
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do you ever stop and think about how bc vowels are made from a lack of obstruction of airflow and not places of articulation that every vowel distinction we make is a result of a slight change measuring in millimeters? and how that can change a meaning drastically?
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y’all see why just saying “Chinese” is laughable
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this is maybe a hot take but prescriptivism lol.
Dear linguists,
What's a language take that's an instant giveaway that the person is NOT a linguist ?
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@TsarevnaOlga
it sounds like the contract for the funding of the project was contingent on his participation as a leading role
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@MorePerfectUS
suspended workers have also been barred from visiting any sbux locations for the duration of their suspension
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And also Breton, Chamorro, Chechen, Chuvash, Fijian, Friulian, Fulani, Jamaican Patois, Kalaallisut, Latgalian, Ligurian, Limburgish, Lombard, Manx, Marshallese, Meadow Mari, Occitan, Ossetian, Sami (North), Sicilian, Silesian,Tahitian, Tamazight, Tongan, Tuvan, Udmurt, AND MORE.
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every unionization effort needs to be supporting every other unionization effort. that’s how we coalesce this into a force against the whole system
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<Marchioness> (see also: marquise) is the wife/female equivalent of a <Marquess>, the English version of the French <Marquis>, coming from Old French <Marchis>
a <marche> in French is a frontier, coming from the Latin <marca>, and a <Marchis> ruled these lands.
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*stares longingly out the window*
i'm dreaming of a south carolina passenger rail
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it’s literally so funny to me that literal governments are filing official requests for taylor swift to come to their cities
i know it’s likely the economic effects the tour will bring that motivate it but i like to imagine world leaders being in dire need of a TS tour stop
📰| South Australian government potentially filing a grievance in Parliament to bring "The Eras Tour" to Adelaide 🇦🇺
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another update:
I don't agree with Mitt Romney on mostly anything, but every Republican voter should see this:
Mitt Romney: “I think the border is a very important issue for Donald Trump. And the fact that he would communicate to Republican senators and congresspeople that he doesn't want us to
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@mdpntr75
i agree except “not flaunting it” is pretty antithetical to pride. being proud for pride means being loud about your pride specifically because we shouldn’t have to hide
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@sambaamx
> Texas put barbed wire on the border in 2023
> Fed says “can’t do that”
> Texas does anyways, states send additional state guard to texas for ‘border protection’
> Supreme Court says “can’t do that”
> Fed sends national guard to go cut the wire
> Texas says they won’t comply
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A police officer taunts the demonstrators and receives a projectile to the helmet in Paris.
🚨🇫🇷EN DIRECT - Un policier nargue les manifestants et reçoit un projectile sur son casque à
#Paris
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