The Crisis of Taiwanese 「台語危機」 This documentary looks at the decline in usage of Taiwanese language (台語；tai-gi) by young people and the influence of Mandarin on Taiwanese https://youtu.be/ldLKMaaawa0?si=ahQMNUzID1oRUhYJ #Taiwan #Taiwanese #linguistics #台灣 #語言學 #台語

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"until the mid-19th century, few aspired to #SelfReliance ..Only in the mid-19th century, due in large part to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay ‘Self-Reliance’ (1841) did the phrase develop positive connotations.": buff.ly/Qry36kv via @psyche.co #linguistics #perspective #shame #independence #culture

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Here is the abstract for the upcoming talk on 23 October! October 23 | 15-16 EET Ursula Lutzky (Vienna University of Economics and Business) “Thanks for the useless answer”. Exploring Customer Service Interactions on Twitter Join the Zoom room: tinyurl.com/talksddi #linguistics

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Today’s news from #Hungary: György Matolcsy, former governor of the national bank and father of Orbán’s “unorthodox economics”, has been arrested. Those who follow news from Hungary will remember his foundations into which public money disappeared, and the sports car collection of his son... >

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I love that my husband's dialect of Spanish (Tabasco Mexican) has full reduplication. He'll commonly say 'luego luego' (much later), or recently he said 'big big' in English during a Spanglish conversation. Curious how widespread this is in LatAm dialects! 🐦🐦

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