sly speechlorer

level 22 language enthusiast

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Helping other people by fact checking, or better yet teaching other people how to fact check and encouraging it to be a habit, are simple steps we can do as individuals to help the larger fact checking facilities that are already in place. (3/3)

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#FactsMatterPH

My takeaway from @MovePH's Disinfo Webinar: It's no longer (and can no longer be) the media's responsibility alone to fact check every single dubious claim. We, as individuals, also need to take part in shaping a society that makes better informed decisions. (1/3)

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Technology and socmed has made false info easier to spread than ever before but it has also made info easier to verify with just a few clicks, with tools that anyone can use. It's actually not as hard as some might think, you don't need a degree to tell if something is sus. (2/3)

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kailangan ko lang mag-tweet ng something kasi ayaw ng algorithm na may biglang magpopost after years of radio silence, di lumalabas sa hashtags

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luh may na-resurrect na twitter

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pet peeve is how the filipino sourcebook we're studying allows splitting the tree into more than two branches but my linguistics training greatly prefers binary splitting :'(

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i wonder if my shortcutting ass will get me in trouble someday + lol my transposition is also correct though 😂

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I LOVE THIS SONG

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OH MY GOOOODDDD TREE DIAGRAMS FOR FILIPINO ARE MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN I'VE EVER IMAGINED

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i'm reading about dialects of filipino in different regions as affected by the region's first language ooooohhhh my god big DESIRE TO LEARN

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um holy shit big language learning mood

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11:11 let me stay in linguistics. let me graduate as a linguistics student from UPD. i want nothing else please

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the sea unites austronesia more than it divides and it's actually very evident in our languages. i love it so much

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and the more they stay in one place, the more diverse their languages become. it bends logic until u consider we were rly made for the sea

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my fave thing about austronesians is that the more islands between them, the less linguistically diverse they are

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i've stumbled across like 5 new grammatical cases that i didn't even know existed and there's a goddamn finnish example for all of them

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omg this documentary just used tagalog "kita" to demonstrate that the number of words =/= number of concepts lmao

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"without language, everyday would be the first day of the world" (discovery channel)

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This is how English speakers were taught to pronounce Japanese in the 19th century

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@dalubwikera 3. compound pronouns like "kita" in other philippine languages and how they evolved