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How to pronounce “antifa”

Pronunciations are converging on [ˌænˈtiːfʌ]

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Positive deaf writers

At Naked Heart 2016, the overriding message from deaf writers was positivity. You’d think I’d know that by now

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“Fash” bashed for Word of the Year

The American Dialect Society failed to even nominate fash for Political Word of the Year. (Antifa was in there)

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Canadian English accent (from nowhere)

HAL 9000’s accent was (neutral) Canadian

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‘CP Caps and Spelling’

I assembled a list of over a hundred neologisms that could be added to CP Caps and Spelling

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Apparent first use of “eldergay”

In the Times last June

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“Make any object non-binary”

“Inspired by the poster who suggested calling margaritas ‘Margaritx’ ”

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Worst intellectual accents

Public intellectuals have to be able to speak English. But the more they’re revered, the worse their accents, diction, and prosody are. (Nº 1 with a bullet: ŽIŽEK!)

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Teaching foreign languages via YouTubé

Dōgen and Ruben Adery are two distinctive but effective practitioners

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How Curtis Yarvin talks

Mencius uh um OK Moldbug you know

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