Teddy Mack 🇻🇨

MA in Linguistics at SOAS English-lexified Atlantic creoles.
he/him
Speak: 🇻🇨🇬🇧🇪🇸🇮🇹(🇫🇷)
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[Teddy Mack 🇻🇨 @theteddymack]

It's me! What a great honour it was to be on Word of Mouth and to meet Michael!

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Talking to Teddy Mack about St Vincent Creole - Vincy. It’s for an upcoming Word of Mouth @BBCRadio4

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Talking to Teddy Mack about St Vincent Creole - Vincy. It’s for an upcoming Word of Mouth @BBCRadio4

[Teddy Mack 🇻🇨 @theteddymack]

@SoVeryBritish A little but it should be fine

[Teddy Mack 🇻🇨 @theteddymack]

@AniaMags This aged like fine milk 😭

[Teddy Mack 🇻🇨 @theteddymack]

@LaymansLinguist More commonly for me things *need* [gerund]ing. Like "oh we should make margaritas, I've got some limes that need using"

[Jesus College @JesusCollegeCam]

Some stunning pics of the Northern Lights above College captured by our students ✨

📸 Thomas Holland and Dominic Swift

[Teddy Mack 🇻🇨 @theteddymack]

It is far too early in the day for me to be having ontological beef with captchas over how much of a motorbike must be in a square to count as "containing" a motorbike. Half a wheel? A single mirror? Does the rider count? Frankly none of the squares contain motorcycleS

[Teddy Mack 🇻🇨 @theteddymack]

I wonder how English kids would perform if things were reversed 🤔

[Teddy Mack 🇻🇨 @theteddymack]

This is patently untrue yet was drummed into us by parents, teachers and even the gov to the point it becomes internalised. But they are different languages with different rules. Then they wonder why kids underperform in tests designed for English-speakers

[DJ DEEJAY-The Drastic Fresh©️ @DJBARBERGREEN1]

@negrosubversive Patios is not a language its a bastardisation of the English language its not a language. Its development has many influences namely Irish English Scottish and West African. Peace

[Teddy Mack 🇻🇨 @theteddymack]

@WillTweetMaybe @manof2moro @LaymansLinguist @garicgymro But reef > reefs, *reeves
Any time anyone tries to make a general statement for English, the language takes it as a personal affront and finds an exception 🤷🏿‍♂️

[Gareth Roberts @garicgymro]

So the man who named pi fathered the man who discovered PIE

[Gareth Roberts @garicgymro]

Fun fact: William Jones, the Welsh farm boy from Llanfihangel Tre'r Beirdd who introduced the symbol π for 3.14159..., was the father of the William Jones who realised that Sanskrit, Latin, and Greek might all be related to each other, and to the Germanic and Celtic languages.

[Teddy Mack 🇻🇨 @theteddymack]

@wylfcen The fact that I can see the ruins of a 12th Century castle from my window

[Teddy Mack 🇻🇨 @theteddymack]

@azforeman My friend Atticus' brother is called /ˈreɪf.əl/

[Teddy Mack 🇻🇨 @theteddymack]

America, i beg you, we are tired of seeing this clown on the news. Please do not elect this fool again. Sincerely, the rest of the world

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: People who don't speak languages. We have languages coming in to our country, nobody that speaks those languages. They're truly foreign languages. Nobody speaks them

[Teddy Mack 🇻🇨 @theteddymack]

@wylfcen Huh, I would have thought that the second element would be from ræd "counsel, advice" as with Æthelred (well-advised) and Ælfred (elf-advised, elf-counsel)? That would give the name a meaning something like "night-counsel" or "dawn-counsel"?

[Teddy Mack 🇻🇨 @theteddymack]

@nationalrailenq isn't this like saying male kilts belong in the 90s since it's a traditional garment, not restricted by gender, worn in many countries with both formal and informal variations?

[Stephen Hopkins @phil_lol_ogist]

How your email finds me

[Teddy Mack 🇻🇨 @theteddymack]

Hey @duolingo care to explain...?

[Teddy Mack 🇻🇨 @theteddymack]

I've been thinking a lot about the skills I gained as a child that set me up for later life and honestly I'm shocked and appalled at how little need there is to pogo as an adul. Really thought that one was gonna be clutch...