#wordsmatter — Public Fediverse posts
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A Forgotten Wave of Extinction May Have Erased Thousands of Human Languages
Photo: (Yale University/Wikimedia) Around 7,500 spoken and signed languages are used worldwide today. Yet this extraordinary diversity may represent only a fraction of the linguistic richness humanity once possessed. A new modeling study published in Science suggests language diversity reached a forgotten golden age between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago, when tens of thousands of languages may have coexisted. What followed was a dramatic decline that appears to have begun long before European […] -
A Forgotten Wave of Extinction May Have Erased Thousands of Human Languages
Photo: (Yale University/Wikimedia) Around 7,500 spoken and signed languages are used worldwide today. Yet this extraordinary diversity may represent only a fraction of the linguistic richness humanity once possessed. A new modeling study published in Science suggests language diversity reached a forgotten golden age between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago, when tens of thousands of languages may have coexisted. What followed was a dramatic decline that appears to have begun long before European […] -
@TheConversationUS And when #DonaldTrump won his first ‘primary’ in the #2016election he famously and sincerely said “I love the #PoorlyEducated.” https://youtu.be/O9F6EAMPky4
Note that he did not say he loved the *UN*educated.
The #chemistry graduates at #LibertyUniversity are not *uneducated*, but they are #PoorlyEducated.
#WordsMatter
The #education bone is connected to the democracy bone! -
@TheConversationUS And when #DonaldTrump won his first ‘primary’ in the #2016election he famously and sincerely said “I love the #PoorlyEducated.” https://youtu.be/O9F6EAMPky4
Note that he did not say he loved the *UN*educated.
The #chemistry graduates at #LibertyUniversity are not *uneducated*, but they are #PoorlyEducated.
#WordsMatter
The #education bone is connected to the democracy bone! -
@faab64 What ‘war’? There has been *no* declaration of #war against #Iran. There is only a #FelonsCrusade that is going according to the nonexistent plan. 🤷🏻♂️
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@faab64 What ‘war’? There has been *no* declaration of #war against #Iran. There is only a #FelonsCrusade that is going according to the nonexistent plan. 🤷🏻♂️
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so not "literally".
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so not "literally".
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RE: https://mastodon.chrisclark.net/@rssbot/116929895990660293
Not "Washington", "The Trump régime".
Not some abstraction, a specific oligarchic gang.
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RE: https://mastodon.chrisclark.net/@rssbot/116929895990660293
Not "Washington", "The Trump régime".
Not some abstraction, a specific oligarchic gang.
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@Naureckas Mainstream #media (#billionaire owned) has failed in its essential duty.
#WordsMatter and #Truth matters. But not in #MAGA Land.
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@Naureckas Mainstream #media (#billionaire owned) has failed in its essential duty.
#WordsMatter and #Truth matters. But not in #MAGA Land.
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If Acts Happened Today, Would We Call It Communism?
For many, "communism" has become less a political philosophy and more a conversation stopper. But is every effort to use our shared resources to care for the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable really communism? This article examines the difference between political labels and biblical principles, comparing the teachings of the early Church with today's political rhetoric. -
If Acts Happened Today, Would We Call It Communism?
For many, "communism" has become less a political philosophy and more a conversation stopper. But is every effort to use our shared resources to care for the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable really communism? This article examines the difference between political labels and biblical principles, comparing the teachings of the early Church with today's political rhetoric. -
If Acts Happened Today, Would We Call It Communism?
For many, "communism" has become less a political philosophy and more a conversation stopper. But is every effort to use our shared resources to care for the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable really communism? This article examines the difference between political labels and biblical principles, comparing the teachings of the early Church with today's political rhetoric. -
If Acts Happened Today, Would We Call It Communism?
For many, "communism" has become less a political philosophy and more a conversation stopper. But is every effort to use our shared resources to care for the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable really communism? This article examines the difference between political labels and biblical principles, comparing the teachings of the early Church with today's political rhetoric. -
If Acts Happened Today, Would We Call It Communism?
For many, "communism" has become less a political philosophy and more a conversation stopper. But is every effort to use our shared resources to care for the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable really communism? This article examines the difference between political labels and biblical principles, comparing the teachings of the early Church with today's political rhetoric. -
Mark Carney spent a year gathering political capital. Now he’s spending it — along with billions of taxpayers’ dollars
They are NOT "taxpayers' dollars". Why do the media and others keep using this phrase.
It belongs to the general public.
Nobody claims that when corporations spend money that it's "customers' money".
The phrase implies that it's been illegitimately taken from people, as if thieves spent their "victims' money".
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Mark Carney spent a year gathering political capital. Now he’s spending it — along with billions of taxpayers’ dollars
They are NOT "taxpayers' dollars". Why do the media and others keep using this phrase.
It belongs to the general public.
Nobody claims that when corporations spend money that it's "customers' money".
The phrase implies that it's been illegitimately taken from people, as if thieves spent their "victims' money".
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I wish people on the left would stop using diagnoses as swearwords and swearwords as diagnoses.
That's nazi rhetoric. -
I wish people on the left would stop using diagnoses as swearwords and swearwords as diagnoses.
That's nazi rhetoric. -
RE: https://flipboard.com/@independent/news-a3lhl24rz/-/a-bn7IdHoaT2264Lqf9w5Niw%3Aa%3A1855170754-%2F0
"All on her own"? Do you mean she didn't need a man to help her? Imagine that! A woman able to manage her money without a man's help! 🙄 #WordsMatter
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RE: https://flipboard.com/@independent/news-a3lhl24rz/-/a-bn7IdHoaT2264Lqf9w5Niw%3Aa%3A1855170754-%2F0
"All on her own"? Do you mean she didn't need a man to help her? Imagine that! A woman able to manage her money without a man's help! 🙄 #WordsMatter
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@Independent @MissConstrue @news-Independent "All on her own"? Do you mean she didn't need a man to help her? Imagine that! A woman able to manage her money without a man's help! 🙄 #WordsMatter
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@Independent @MissConstrue @news-Independent "All on her own"? Do you mean she didn't need a man to help her? Imagine that! A woman able to manage her money without a man's help! 🙄 #WordsMatter
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@JeffGrigg @wavefunction @markmetz @clew Also, when I said "you" I didn't mean you. I meant people in general. Maybe I should use the word "we." #WordsMatter
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@JeffGrigg @wavefunction @markmetz @clew Also, when I said "you" I didn't mean you. I meant people in general. Maybe I should use the word "we." #WordsMatter
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@GiftArticles Humans killing humans is as old as humanity itself.
#Ukraine is teaching the world how to *kill killers* (at scale) again. Like the #Antifa Allies did during #WorldWar2.
#WordsMatter
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@GiftArticles Humans killing humans is as old as humanity itself.
#Ukraine is teaching the world how to *kill killers* (at scale) again. Like the #Antifa Allies did during #WorldWar2.
#WordsMatter
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Listening to the news yesterday, I heard three uses of the phrase "men and women" when "people" would have been more accurate, unless they really think non-binary or intersex people should be excluded.
Years ago—and still, in some circles—they would just have said "men", so we've made progress, but surely it's time to remove irrelevant gender references from our language?
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Listening to the news yesterday, I heard three uses of the phrase "men and women" when "people" would have been more accurate, unless they really think non-binary or intersex people should be excluded.
Years ago—and still, in some circles—they would just have said "men", so we've made progress, but surely it's time to remove irrelevant gender references from our language?
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Words are not “just words” they shape identities,
https://de320.isrefer.com/go/LUYDV3RB/Stuartn/
#PowerOfWords #SpeakLife #WordsMatter #BeKind #ConsciousCommunication #EmotionalHealing #ThinkandGrowEducation #RayBehan #Placeboeffect #Meditation -
Words are not “just words” they shape identities,
https://de320.isrefer.com/go/LUYDV3RB/Stuartn/
#PowerOfWords #SpeakLife #WordsMatter #BeKind #ConsciousCommunication #EmotionalHealing #ThinkandGrowEducation #RayBehan #Placeboeffect #Meditation -
Regular reminder to not use violent sexualized language to talk about toxic people.
Victims of sexualized violence, no matter their age, often blame themselves. That is a normal psychological reaction to traumatizing abuse. When you say "fuck nazis" you're basically telling women, men, non-binary grownups and children victimized:
"Yes its okay to use sexualized violence against bad people. They deserve it."
And that means:
"You must have deserved it too, which means you're as bad as a nazi."Show empathy to the victims by not normalizing the acts and language of the perpetrators.
#SexualizedViolence #SexualizedLanguage #RapeCulture #WordsMatter
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🇮🇱 #IDF: calls it a “uninvolved civilian”
🌍 The world: calls him Sam Fahd Abou Haikal, he was 7 months old -
🇮🇱 #IDF: calls it a “uninvolved civilian”
🌍 The world: calls him Sam Fahd Abou Haikal, he was 7 months old -
When there’s really no other option, you issue a correction… but only once someone turns up on your doorstep with either a lawyer or a homeless child with death parents.
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When there’s really no other option, you issue a correction… but only once someone turns up on your doorstep with either a lawyer or a homeless child with death parents.
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"Toronto police officer charged with sexual assault of female youth"
"Female youth"? What arsehole writes these headlines?
She's a girl.
Under 16.
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"Toronto police officer charged with sexual assault of female youth"
"Female youth"? What arsehole writes these headlines?
She's a girl.
Under 16.
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There are stories I never said out loud; they learned to exist as poetry instead.
#Poetry #Poem #Poet #PoetryLovers #Writing #CreativeWriting #SpokenWord #Literature #ArtOfWords #WritersCommunity #Thoughts #Emotions #SoulfulWords #DeepThoughts #PoetryLife #Inspiration #WordsMatter #PoetryCommunity
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There are stories I never said out loud; they learned to exist as poetry instead.
#Poetry #Poem #Poet #PoetryLovers #Writing #CreativeWriting #SpokenWord #Literature #ArtOfWords #WritersCommunity #Thoughts #Emotions #SoulfulWords #DeepThoughts #PoetryLife #Inspiration #WordsMatter #PoetryCommunity
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#wordsmatter #verovert #captured #confusion
- Mario and Luigi “capture” a mountaintop…
- White 🎩 hackers “capture” a flag…
- “Confusion” make you select the wrong player or joystick……confusions does never ends up in a genocide and the total destruction of full bloodlines, journalists killed, children, hospitals, schools vaporized and just enter sovereign country’s… yeah, some confusion.
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#wordsmatter #verovert #captured #confusion
- Mario and Luigi “capture” a mountaintop…
- White 🎩 hackers “capture” a flag…
- “Confusion” make you select the wrong player or joystick……confusions does never ends up in a genocide and the total destruction of full bloodlines, journalists killed, children, hospitals, schools vaporized and just enter sovereign country’s… yeah, some confusion.
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So not "imprisoned". Kidnapped and held captive.
Prison: a building in which people are legally held as a punishment for a crime they have committed or while awaiting trial (Oxford Dictionary)
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So not "imprisoned". Kidnapped and held captive.
Prison: a building in which people are legally held as a punishment for a crime they have committed or while awaiting trial (Oxford Dictionary)
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Prima woordkeuze..Hoe kijken we aan tegen:
- Wehrmacht-soldaten en de Waffen-SS namen Paleis Het Loo in “beheer”?
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Prima woordkeuze..Hoe kijken we aan tegen:
- Wehrmacht-soldaten en de Waffen-SS namen Paleis Het Loo in “beheer”?
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'Mass deletes'?
Or 'destroys evidence'?
One of these is a criminal offense.
https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/crime-penalties/federal/Tampering-with-evidence.htm
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'Mass deletes'?
Or 'destroys evidence'?
One of these is a criminal offense.
https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/crime-penalties/federal/Tampering-with-evidence.htm
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"Would a $1 rideshare fee affect wealthier or working‑class Philadelphians more? 2 Chicago studies offer some perspective"
Why do media still use the word "rideshare". Who do you share an Uber ride with?
The driver?
Surely mass transit is more about sharing rides.
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-rideshare-fee-affect-wealthier-workingclass.html
