Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #anglocentrism, aggregated by home.social.
An interesting (though not very surprising IMO) read about #Anglophone #Linguistics and English bias: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17447143.2015.1102921
> Asking a linguist how many languages they speak is like asking a doctor how many diseases they have.
Chomsky managed to avoid learning “the ebola of linguistics” after all.
@blog Yes! Im so annoyed by the arbitrary #anglocentrism!
When I write #GodtMål Mastodon is changing the å to bloody a. Fuck off!
Of Gods and Gamemasters Presents: On September 3rd, at 2pm EDT, the Color Based Coalition tackles another contentious topic with a diverse panel of academics, creatives, and performers.
Anglocentrism in Fantasy.
Why it is pervasive, more than just Eurocentric.
#ttrpg #dnd #fantasy #gurps #genesys #rpg #larp #anglocentrism #diversity
https://www.twitch.tv/ofgodsandgamemasters
Although I took 4 years of German in high school and 3 semesters of college-level conversational French, and I know a smattering of Japanese and Spanish, and I can say "in hospital" in Welsh, I'm not fluent in any language but English.
I admit it readily and willingly.