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rosslynpaladin:

Miíyu miíyu. It is Speak Your Language day. However, thanks to Colonization and “extermination” and other genocide methods, I only speak a few words of what should have been my first language.

When we think about languages it is important to know of and support the ones that Colonial Imperialism has done its best to eradicate.

This includes not mocking them as silly,

not saying they sound like nonsense,

not joking about their spelling, the look of their alphabet,

not joking about how they sound

as “making no sense” to you just because you speak a Majority language. You are not more comprehensible or correct than their words are just because you can’t understand them.

That is Colonizer rhetoric.

Respecting a language actual people speak is part of not being bigoted.

 Yes, this includes languages spoken by “white” people, like Irish, Scots Gaelic and Scots dialect, Breton, Welsh, Cornish, and so on.

These few words you see me use are Chamteéla, one of the languages formerly common in what is now called California, USA.

Noó$un Loóviq

All of this

And also, please, if a minority language is really close to a dominant language, don’t dismiss it as an “improper/incorrect” version of that language

Scots isn’t “improper English”

Occitan isn’t “improper French”

Corsican isn’t “improper Italian”

Frisian isn’t “improper Dutch”

and so on

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kleefkruid:

The ‘hyperspecific situations’ polls are really once again highlighting that native English speakers tend to forget that 'foreign’ doesn’t mean 'non-English’ or 'non-American’

“Did you watch a foreign language movie in the past three days?” Yeah I watched the foreign movie “The Martian” with foreign actor Matt Damon

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Op why would you hide this is the tags

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fictions-stranger:

academicssay:

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academic publishing explained

A) this is hilarious and kids are fucking incredible comedians with devastatingly frank takedowns of adult nonsense


B) for people in the tags, I am absolutely certain it’s not “I sell paper”!!! It’s “hice el paper” = “I made/did the paper”

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ben-learns-smth:

this is the “how alike are we”-bingo tag game from 2 years or so ago, but this time it’s:

get to know me - hyperspecific poll edition

I take my non-travel aka stoneware mugs on walks with me

I have a cardboard box as a laptop stand

my favourite colours are yellow And green

I have 15+ plants

when asked for a favourite book I’ll list at least 3

I send postcards to my friends without any reason but I want to make them smile

I own an instrument I can’t play (anymore)

I gave something inanimate a name

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linguisticdiscovery:

The Lingít language is really cool because (among other reasons) it has glottalized nasal consonants!

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bulletnotestudies:

long time no tag game! thanks @fluencylevelfrench for tagging me to share 5 songs I’ve been listening to lately :)

in no particular order, these have been bumping around in my skull like the dvd logo back in the good ol’ days:

  • what you gonna do? - bastille ft. graham coxon
  • girlfriend - avril lavigne (i was randomly feeling a tad nostalgic the other day lol)
  • doom days - bastille
  • arsonist’s lullabye - hozier
  • bubblegum bitch - marina

i’m tagging @bennistudies @upside-down-uni @dutch-polyglot and whoever else wants to do this little tag game xx