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@kctipton@mas.to
2025-10-13 23:26:17

Where ‘grift’ meets ‘graft’ - Columbia Journalism Review #words

Where ‘grift’ meets ‘graft’
Shortly after the arrest of Steve Bannon, President Trump’s former White House strategist, on fraud charges, the New York Times ran an editorial with the headline “Steve Bannon’s Art of the Grift.”  The word “grift” did not appear in the editorial. The Washington Post did use it: “The grift alleged is disgusting, if not surprising,” […]

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2025-10-10 19:12:04

Allusionist 218: Banned Books #podcast

Allusionist 218. Banned Books — The Allusionist
It's Banned Books Week. Honorary youth chair Iris Mogul and Sam Helmick, president of the American Library Association, talk about what it is, why it matters so much, and how you can get involved.

@crell@phpc.social
2025-08-22 15:41:50

Please remember to flag the correct language on your Mastodon posts! Otherwise, everyone else's language filtering doesn't work.
Signed, someone who doesn't want to keep seeing posts in languages he can't understand and therefore gets no value from.
#Mastodon #Language

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-09-28 11:15:56
Content warning: anti-fascism / language

I would like to see the abbreviation "antifa" phased out, and everyone saying "anti-fascist" and "anti-fascism" instead. Make it as obvious as possible what 47 and his buddies are trying to sweep out of their way.
#antifascism #language

@newstik@social.heise.de
2025-09-29 21:43:31

"More than just words, #language is a living expression of #culture, a way of seeing, sharing, and shaping the world around us."
Brandon Hanley, MP #Yukon

@outer@mas.to
2025-08-24 03:51:16

My wife and I just watched a show on Kanopy, called Language Matters with Bob Holman--by David Grubin, 2015.
It was just top-notch. It was about 3 endangered cultures: the 1st was on islands off N. Australia, the 2nd was Welsh, and the 3rd was Hawaiian.
I'm going to watch it again, right after I think about it some more.
#Language

@vrandecic@mas.to
2025-09-25 08:44:30

Mixing languages can be confusing
#linguistics #languages #language

A cookie jar for selling cookies labeled with "American Cookie hell - Stück 1,90€"
@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2025-10-28 13:41:52

If "extravagant" means "exceeding the limits of reason or necessity", you'd think "vagant" means "at/within limits of reason or necessity", but no, English has to screw with us. 😠
#English #words #language #inconsistency