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Carsten Buus · @CarstenBuus

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“A brief history of singular ‘they’.” Baron 2018. #OxfordEnglishDictionary. https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they/

#SingularThey #TheyThem #EnglishGrammar #EnglishLanguage #LanguageHistory #History

#oxfordenglishdictionary #singularthey #theythem #englishgrammar #englishlanguage #languagehistory #history

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Freelance Translator · @Translator

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RT @rassulsson@twitter.com

Did you know that Dongba script is a pictographic writing system used by the Naxi people in China? It has over 2,000 characters and is believed to be one of the last living pictographic scripts in the world. #DongbaScript #Naxi #LanguageHistory

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/rassulsson/status/1642773348685062145

#dongbascript #naxi #languagehistory

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James Bartlett :terminal: · @JamesDBartlett3

328 followers · 846 posts · Server techhub.social

@GreenSkyOverMe

Is #English your native language, as it is mine? #Polish and #Czech are both #Slavic languages, and I've found Czech way more challenging than the other languages I've dabbled with (#Spanish and #French, both of which are #Romance languages, and seem to have a lot in common with English in terms of their #grammar, #SentenceStructure, and largely #Latin-based lexicons).

Of course, English is primarily a #Germanic language, so the reasons why Romance languages seem easier to me than Slavic languages are probably best explained by someone who knows a lot more about #Linguistics, #LanguageHistory, and #ProtoIndoEuropean.

Calling all #Linguists and #LanguageNerds! 🤓

#english #polish #czech #slavic #spanish #french #romance #grammar #sentencestructure #latin #germanic #linguistics #languagehistory #ProtoIndoEuropean #linguists #languagenerds