Someone should make a film about a mad king, say in the late 18th century, whose arbitrary rule and foolish decision-making inspired people in one of his colonies to create a political system in which power would be distributed more widely so as to avoid the harms of such mercurial policy making.

And Kramer insists on changing changing changing changing all the plans, and notifying the Houthis in advance because a surprise attack “wouldn’t be fair.”

A seinfeld episode where kramer is accidentally added to the war plans group chat

I’m so sorry! Stay alert. And keep writing! 👍😊

Controversial military-themed brewery shuts its doors after a year in Norfolk, citing “woke mob” Financial filings show the brewery was struggling financially before it relocated and had failed to start turning a profit after opening in Norfolk.

They made a homophobic, anti-mask, misogynist the face of their company and then act like victims when decent people decided not to buy their vetbro beer. The punchline: the CEO of Armed Forces Brewing never served. It’s a marketing ploy. $300K from Youngkin wasted. www.whro.org/business-gro...

The Supreme Court decision should have been 9-0. The fact it was 5-4 reveals how utterly compromised the bench is in favor of right-wing authoritarianism.

The actress facing 74 lashes in Iran for her Oscar-nominated film Instead of attending the glitzy Hollywood ceremony, Soheila Golestani is on trial by the Revolutionary Court for her part in The Seed of the Sacred Fig

In grim contrast to the red carpet, Soheila Golestani faces 74 lashes for her Oscar-nominated film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Watch this film to understand the repression of Iran’s theocratic regime &why the #WomenLifeFreedom movement is so important: www.thetimes.com/culture/film...

Maybe best is the classic “ugly American”.

The Languages Lost To Climate Change | NOEMA Climate catastrophes and biodiversity loss are endangering languages across the globe.

…between 1970 and 2005, global linguistic diversity had declined by an estimated 20%, with Indigenous languages most affected… The trends in language loss closely mirrored the decline in global biodiversity… plant and animal species had shrunk by an average of 27% www.noemamag.com/the-language...

New tech revives degraded cassettes, preserving rare recordings of endangered languages and cultures.
https://theconversation.com/how-were-recovering-priceless-audio-and-lost-languages-from-old-decaying-tapes-248116
#audiopreservation #culturalheritage #technology #linguistics #digitalarchives

Native French speakers sent to have more difficulty with others with this combination.

It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic.

When the fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.

Saw this in the materials for my Linguistics class and I mean... this is exactly why I'm so much into Linguistics and languages, look at how interdisciplinary this thing is!! #langsky

I’m pretty sure what was the intended word. Not hard to guess, given the context. The word in the text could indeed prove very useful in OTHER contexts.It can join the club of other *~heads*. Bedhead, sleepyhead, blockhead, fathead, Deadhead (a close relative! 🤣).

No, only digital these days. Digital can keep up with changes as they happen, in progress.

Interesting idea. Can you elaborate a little bit more on the concept of a “ubiquitous language” and what it entails?

In theory ubiquitous language is a nice idea. Having special words in local contexts.

In reality, an organization has a global namespace where words from different contexts are used together

We can't ignore that otherwise we risk ncreasing ambiguity on a global level.

At least a little bit, half an hour to an hour, almost every day. For German, a usually Deutschland Funk political talk show, or podcast such as Alles Gesagt. For French, France culture, France inter, RFI.

Also in Mandarin.

I can sort of do German with a French accent.

#Diversity exists on🌎& #celebrating it in #classrooms strengthens #democracy #HumanRights & #equity
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#teaching #multilingualism & #Citizenshipeducation as feat. in @acitizenshipt.bsky.social Issue 56 ref #ppop groups & impact of pop culture in #education.

Erik Orsenna (Erik Arnoult),membre de l’académie française : « les mots sont les petits moteurs de la vie ». 👍😆

Charted: The Countries that Speak the Most Languages What are the most linguistically diverse countries in the world? We look at the top 10 by number of living languages spoken.

Switzerland: We proudly speak four languages.
India: That's cute. Try 454.
Papua New Guinea: *laughs in 839 languages*

#language #languagespercountry #multilingual

www.visualcapitalist.com/countries-sp...

YouTube video by Alliterative Resignation/Schism #etymology

The surprisingly connected origins of "resignation", "sake", "consequence" and "schism".

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#etymology #wordnerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #resignation #trudeau #schism #sake #consequence

With that being said, I am terrified for what’s to come since I so happen to live in the first city that is expected to be raided by ICE. This has been the most exhausting 19 days EVER.

Thanks! Yeah, I can see that as an advantage. I guess I haven’t experienced it as an advantage because I don’t very often translanguage when writing. That’s probably a better, more interesting question in my case. Why don’t I?

Yes! What’s going on with that? I’m not sure I understand the advantage, find it slightly annoying. Help me understand.

YouTube video by Alliterative Etymology: Some History of Proto-Indo-European

Happy #NationalWordNerdDay to all our fellow wordnerds! It’s hard to pick just one of our videos to mark this day, but how about this classic, the etymology of Etymology? youtu.be/uAelIs0pNUY

#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics