#englishes — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #englishes, aggregated by home.social.
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DT thinks some accents are ‘beautiful’ — but why?
#english #englishes #accents #neutralAccents #naturalAccents #languages #linguistics
https://www.alternet.org/donald-trump-thinks-some-accents-are-beautiful-but-why/
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Insightful, heartening read by Mia You on (non) native English, (poetry) translation, and who owns language:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/1659311/poets-on-translation-the-alternative-speaker
"The English of possibility. The English in the imagination. The English reclaimed and reinvented by the (neo-)colonized speaker. You find a way to stretch the language to fit you and your stray prepositions."