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United Auto Workers sit-down strike (1936)

this strike won them a 5% pay increase and the right to talk during lunch, in case you needed a reminder that if capital had its way your worklife would be entirely dystopian

cryoverkiltmilk

This seems topical again.

kunosoura

my number one woman behavior is saying i’m fine with any pronouns and silently ranking people in my regard based on what they do with that information

deirdreskye

This is George Costanza behavior

leafcrunch

GEORGE: she he’d me!

JERRY: exclusively?!

GEORGE: the WHOLE evening.

JERRY: and this is the girl who had ACAB Land Back Fuck TERFs in her profile?

GEORGE: i told you, jerry! i told you that was a huge red flag. all performativity, no understanding behind it.

JERRY: i just don’t get it, who hears “any pronouns” and doesn’t even throw a they into the mix?

GEORGE: cis women on tinder, apparently!

KRAMER: *barging in* george! how’d that tinder date go?

GEORGE: terrible!

KRAMER: i warned you! jerry, i warned her, i told her “keep to hinge and her, there’s nothing for you on tinder” and did they listen?

JERRY: xe didn’t listen.

dingalinguistics

hi everyone! i’ve been awol for a while because it turns out i cannot handle a full time job, being a full time student, and taking care of several small animals all at the same time. but i’m gonna be doing a livestream for a new linguistics show tomorrow at 2 pm pacific time if you want to check it out! it’s called dingalinguistics and it’s about me, acting like a dingaling, talkin bout linguistics. maybe with some friends? but not with alcohol. i tried doing this show drunk and it did not go well.

anywho see y’all then

#linguistics #dingaling #dingalinguistics #edutainment #conlang

wearejapanese

Japan’s indigenous people – the Ainu – were once in danger of dying out as an ethnic group. In the past they faced assimilation policies by the government. But today, many are striving to help their culture live on.

#ainu

conlangprompts

The word for “recognise” is derived from the word for “somebody”.

#conlangprompts

linguisten

A new study of how tone languages are sung has implications for the way humans manipulate and adapt the sounds of their language to artistic expression. The study, 'Tone-tune association in Tommo So (Dogon) folk songs,' by Laura McPherson (Dartmouth College) and Kevin Ryan (Harvard University), will be published in the March 2018 issue of the scholarly journal Language.

#linguistics

kejajejfjkskrklsmxkdnfjdnebx

in light of google being a piece of shit with its image search, im gonna plug ecosia, its a search engine that uses ad revenue to plant trees and restore watersheds, AND they have full view images :~)

#i highly recommend ecosia!#my search engine of choice

kimoramay-deactivated20170907

I was told recently about a school that was shamed into changing its school motto. The motto was “I hear, I see, I learn.” Nothing wrong with that per se. Unfortunately the motto was in Latin, and the Latin for “I hear, I see, I learn” is “audio, video, disco”.

wonderfulworldofmichaelford

What the fuck that’s the best school motto ever change it back

#latin #humor

machigaeru

I started Hebrew, which is why I’ve been dead on this blog, but I don’t think I can ever properly convey to you guys the sheer cultural whiplash of spending years learning Japanese from Japanese teachers and then trying to learn Hebrew from an Israeli

Japanese: you walk into class already apologizing for being alive Hebrew: you walk into class, the teacher insults you and you are expected to insult her back

Japanese: conjugates every single verb based on degree of intended politeness, nevermind keigo and honorifics Hebrew: Someone asked my teacher how to say “excuse me” and she laughed for several seconds before saying we shouldn’t worry about remembering that since we’ll never need to say it

Japanese: if you get one stroke wrong the entire kanji is incomprehensible Hebrew: cursive? script? fuck it do whatever you want, you don’t even have to write the vowels out unless you feel like it

Japanese: the closest thing there is to ‘bastard’ is an excessively direct ‘you’ pronoun Hebrew: ‘bitch’ translates directly

#japanese #hebrew

beaunydoorin

i love ubc bc not long ago someone graffitied “socrates was a bitch and so was descartes” on the wall of the arts building and thats what uni is really abt

beaunydoorin

#university #philosophy #to translate

othmeralia

On this day in 1869 Dmitrii Mendeleev sketched his first draft of the periodic table. While Mendeleev’s version remains the most common, alternative arrangements include circular, cylindrical, pyramidal, spiral, and triangular layouts. Indeed, Edward Mazurs chronicled over 140 types in his seminal work, Graphic Representations of the Periodic System over 100 Years! Which one gets your vote?

#science #culture

tranxio

Many languages use a “head final” or “left-branching” syntax. In these languages, Americans cheesed burgers eating be

motherboxing

@lingrix can u confirm

lingrix

correct! on the other hand languages with V2 order (which involves some left branching), americans be cheesed burgers eating

linguisten

#word order

thecomicsvault

“TELL TALE COMIC STRIP BALLOONS” Art by Bob Clark Words by Don Edwing MAD Magazine #160 (July 1973)

cowboy-garfield

Charlie Brown pining for nuclear warfare as usual

sinesalvatorem

These speech bubbles are masterfully suggestive

linguisten

iconicity

#fave

otahkoapisiakii

BLACKFEET TRIBE STATE OF EMERGENCY!

We need food in Blackfeet Nation.

Blackfeet Nourish has been providing food for the Medicine Bear Shelter and Blackfeet Food Bank for more than six years. The month of February has been grueling. Blackfeet [Nation reservation] has been hit by blizzard after blizzard with hurricane-force winds. Many people around Blackfeet Nation are both trapped in their homes and trapped out of their homes, in shelters, and other people’s homes.

100% of the donations will go to food for the Blackfeet Nation and dispersed [by] the shelter and as directed by Blackfeet Tribe’s Incident Command Center.

Go to: http://nourishtheflathead.org/donate/ and please indicate “Blackfeet Nourish” in the message line

If you can’t donate, PLEASE signal boost! Niisiniyitaki!