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Fundi • Hobbyist Sound Engineer • Humanities Propaganda Enthusiast • 📚 • 'It Depends'

[Marcellus Wallace @MaselasWales]

@spongy_dee A major language is not defined by having more speakers or greater linguistic complexity. It is the language that has been standardized, institutionalized, and made the norm through schools, bureaucracies, courts, dictionaries, grammars, and other state apparatuses.

[Marcellus Wallace @MaselasWales]

@spongy_dee Their claim is not simply that politics influences language classification, but that the distinction between major language and minor language is itself an effect of political organization rather than an intrinsic linguistic fact.

[·|☉|∘ @9ichia]

I know Afrikaans is a weird example to use here because semi- creolization and the divergent evolution from Dutch and the recognition in 1925 etc but the salient point is why we consider one a standalone language and the other isn't.

[·|☉|∘ @9ichia]

Prof is cooking here! Because how are we as continental Africans evaluating AAVE & SAE when we come from an entirely different social and cultural context?

How are we making AAVE a thing to know? What lenses, frameworks and definitions are we appropriating / using here?

[Uju Anya @UjuAnya]

@ntuba21 The silliest thing about this argument is your premise that translanguaging and codeswitching need to meet some threshold in distinctiveness in the languages involved to qualify as such. And that’s not true. So your list here is meaningless in this conversation.

[·|☉|∘ @9ichia]

I think that there is an argument here that the threshold is either non-existent or arbitrary and an invitation to interrogate why we don't consider AAL & AAVE distinct languages from SAE.

[·|☉|∘ @9ichia]

Ksks 💀

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

@BoscoCode @NevinClimenhaga It might be helpful for you to ask a friend or someone you respect if you have understood this exchange correctly.

[WARÚHIÚ @kamauwaruhiu]

Elsavador ,mexico , Haiti and many other countries have each battled with the problem of goons and gangs that our politicians are cultivating. Some of them won some lost but all of them are still fighting.
Most of you are too young to remember mùngìkì and sabaot land defense. It's a dangerous game this people are playing backed by mindless people and a brainless police force.

[·|☉|∘ @9ichia]

Deras are gender neutral!

[Mbithe🫧🪼 @_mbithee]

Mi naona mnasemaea bedrotting na a man's house nacheka because last time I did that nilidig nikapatana na Dera kama tano zimefichwa 😂 and he told me ye huzivaa akipika waah ,

[·|☉|∘ @9ichia]

Real. I love house down, but I'm currently stumped and don't know where to go from here.

I don't expect any of my favs to disavow March & March but at the same time, if that's how they feel about foreigners, what are they doing in Nairobi on a Friday?

[Nyanje wa Nyanje @nyanjewanyanje]

Kenyan Afro house fans wanajifanya hawajui most of their favorite acts support March and March. Btw many are from Durban where that movement comes from. Their views are those of their people. Continue giving them your moneys.

[·|☉|∘ @9ichia]

What are you people even on about?

I didn't learn about rebound etiquette from a TikTok.

[pampam❤️ @pam_isdatchicc]

I keep wondering, why don’t older adults have serious conversations about marriage with men the way they do with women?.

[·|☉|∘ @9ichia]

BOKKIEULT & Dr. Ado - Hold My Hand (extended mix)

https://t.co/xgd87LyDwA

[·|☉|∘ @9ichia]

I Want U - Artwork Sounds , DJ Kent & Mr Shane SA

https://t.co/TLXOWpDE3B

[·|☉|∘ @9ichia]

Dark Place (ft. D.General) - China Charmeleon

https://t.co/rc1RadxCoD

[Uncle Sicheme @hecticnine99]

Let me tell you a story of what is happening in my country, Eswatini. In September 2023 the taxman ERS took members of parliament to a retreat, where they discussed how much they need to hit the target of revenue collection to fund capital projects. So they identified a few….

[·|☉|∘ @9ichia]

Real.

[project hail meera @saoirsesronan]

jane austen adaptations are like my marvel cinematic universe idgaf how many times they remake them as long as they’re good and there’s chemistry between the leads

[·|☉|∘ @9ichia]

Ideally, adaptations are new things in and of themselves, now what kind of things they are depends on a bunch of things eg a financing logic (adorno) or something else etc etc

[·|☉|∘ @9ichia]

Oh, they're already picking this apart 😭 and I understand but damn.

Linda Hutcheon You will always be famous.

[·|☉|∘ @9ichia]

Palimpsest?

[·|☉|∘ @9ichia]

Oh, they're already picking this apart 😭 and I understand but damn.

Linda Hutcheon You will always be famous.

[·|☉|∘ @9ichia]

Very grateful that they made me read this for the bookclub at the end of last year because I very much enjoyed it.

Also, I don't have that much experience with adaptation as a genre but this looks very promising. I hope we atleast get a screening on this side.

[·|☉|∘ @9ichia]

Nangoja nione reactions huko book-tube because the backlash after the Trailer for Nolan's Odyssey was quite something.

[·|☉|∘ @9ichia]

Very grateful that they made me read this for the bookclub at the end of last year because I very much enjoyed it.

Also, I don't have that much experience with adaptation as a genre but this looks very promising. I hope we atleast get a screening on this side.

[Sense and Sensibility @sensemovie]

Based on Jane Austen's iconic masterpiece, watch the trailer for SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, Caitríona Balfe, George MacKay, and Fiona Shaw. Only in theaters October 16.

[·|☉|∘ @9ichia]

(Unrelated)

Looking like a stud after a fresh cut is the litmus test for great baba-ing. (barbering)

[🎀BeelzebabE🎀 @archangell777]

My patna is on his way to looking like a stud with that hair. I'm so psyched 🤣🤣