#english terminology

[rattusn0rvegicus]

Man I feel like a lot of leftist activists would do a lot better to just use common fucking language to talk about things rather than dense academic shit that's only understandable to people with PhDs and people who spend 95% of their waking life on Leftist Twitter lmao

Like, you're talking with other academics? Great, use academic language. You're a social media account trying to interact with the general public? Don't say "decarcerate", say "find alternatives to imprisonment". Don't say "collective liberation", say "freedom for all". By GOD don't say "bodymind autonomy", say "the ability to have control over our own minds and bodies".

Yes it takes a little more effort to explain shit in common language but I promise you people will stop looking at you like you have two heads and dismissing everything you say as Woke Bullshit if you like, actually get on their level, goddamn it. Not everyone has the privilege to have a graduate-school level understanding of this type of language or spend so much time reading leftist theory that they can perfectly understand this stuff.

#being a public health student has made me even more passionate about this too #like. You want to make a change? You have to make sure the general public UNDERSTANDS WTF YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT FIRST #Like for example I think Project LETS is a great concept and is doing great stuff #But my god their public outreach needs some MAJOR work #By using this type of language you are isolating the type of ppl who can benefit from your services to 'college educated Twitter leftists' #Social justice is a MAJOR INTEREST OF MINE and even I struggle with making sense of some of the shit y'all say!! #Like I have to translate it in my head to normal speak #And like. These types of spaces constantly talk about accessibility for disabled people? Bullshit man #What about those with intellectual disabilities or cognitive impairments who struggle with this shit? #What about people who are just learning English? What about people who work full time and don't have the time to learn this terminology? #Goddamn #It's all performative!!!!

[brainworms-all-night-long]

Tails and Nine can tecnobbable to their heart's content since they know each of the proper terminologies and understand the formulas that Mangey is starting to learn as well, on paper at least.

Sails doesn't bother.

He knows the practical side of tech and doesn't feel the need to write three books calculating the energy output and friction caused by a gear complex, or the bearing capacity of its hinges, he just makes it and if it holds up then that is that. He's also an absolute headache to get through and understand the slang he uses for everything.

#sonic prime #prime bros #It gets easier with time as they remeber what the fuck he means #I unfortunately don't have any examples at hand in English #but trust me that it is an absolute pain suddenly working with people who only use slang terms #for things you've been forced to learn the classified terminologies for #miles tails prower #tails the fox #miles nine prower #nine the fox #mangey the fox #mangey tails #sails tails #sails the fox #silly brainworms

[ophthalmotropy]

For those not in the know, Argentine president Javier Milei's Omnibus Law (a nightmare bill with articles that would expand the president's powers and privatise state properties, among other things) was turned down yesterday.

It had been approved in general on Friday, and they were voting for the particular articles in this session, but apparently some congresspeople who had promised a yes were voting no (my guess is the soft opposition [radicals] wanted more money?). La Libertad Avanza (Milei's party) called for a break to evaluate the situation, and when they came back said that either they passed it or the bill went back to commissions, seemingly under the impression that they'd keep the general saction.

BUT Article 155 of the rules of Congress, which clearly NONE of them read, states that if a partially sanctioned bill goes back to commissions it's like it never got voted. They have to start from zero after having already shown their cards just because they don't now how the laws work--the Minister of Interior had to have it explained to him on live television. This is a massive win because there's no memory of any government here having the first bill of their administration rejected. Right now Milei is in Israel, mass-liking tweets that say the congressmen in question are little whores and they should go to civil war for this.

#Sorry if I didn't explain this well--my legal terminology in English is a bit shaky. #But mutuals not from Argentina you HAVE to know about this. #l33chsp34k #argentina

[mxtxfanatic]

Just looked at the glossary, pronunciation guide, and terminology sections of 7seas tgcf and y’all were right, this shit is mad offensive lmao. (Not to say that I didn’t believe folks before, I’d just always skipped everything after the actual story content for the other mxtx books.)

#just copped a volume and everyone involved in this is going to hell #i can only laugh at this point #what made them think THIS was ok???? #on top of which my volume is a later one #why are certain concepts being explained over and over again #who is the target audience and why do y’all assume we have goldfish memory when it comes to Chinese culture??? #you think english-speaking danmei fans can’t understand a handful of terms common in the danmei genre??? #common in the 2000-page book you’re currently translating??? #they should’ve stopped at explaining the names ONCE and explaining the terminology ONCE as it popped up #but the pronunciation guide? 😬

[sexchangedotcom]

somebody just tagged my url "t slur" literally go fuck a chainsaw ohh my god

#f slur i get but fucking transsexual?? youre telling me the word 'transsexual' needs a content warning #perhaps overreacting but im gonna need english epakers to realise transgender is not a word in every language im gonna need you lot to #realise that the only term for trans ppl in any of my native languages is not a slur #that the name of the diagnosis it takes four years to acquire here is not a slur #that every trans person who uses terminology that was invented before 1965 isnt using a slur #killing mauling

[renegade-hierophant]

Egyptologist terminology reminder:

Singular: hieroglyph

Plural: hieroglyphs

Adjective: hieroglyphic

Never use: hieroglyphics

#egyptian #egyptology #terminology #english

[ghostslimu]

wait this has probably been asked before but im curious, @ systems:

no clicky option for singlets click the reblog button instead /lh having an already known alter appear in a dream doesn't count btw, this is only about alters that seemed to appear in dreams first/"came from" a dream

#thoughts #system stuff #did #osdd #plural #polls #system poll #osddid #actually did #osdd system #did system #dissociative identity disorder #whatever else tags idk #also sorry if i used some wrong terminology english isnt my first language

[killalluchihas]

you can’t see curses unless you have enough cursed energy to use cursed energy, and only then will you also see curses and also be able to kill curses with your cursed energy. so if you only have some cursed energy you need cursed energy glasses to see curses and you’ll also need a cursed tool to kill curses. oh, you can also see curses if you have absolutely no cursed energy, but if you have absolutely no cursed energy you still need a cursed tool to kill curses because you can only kill curses with cursed energy—

I HATE THIS SO MUCH, SAY CURSE ONE MORE TIME 🔫

#maybe it doesnt sound as bad in japanese but in english?? the terminology makes me cry #i was trying to determine if toji can see curses or not #jjk #jujutsu kaisen

[dumpygrimbos]

So uh the manga I Think I Turned my Childhood Friend into a Girl is pretty good. Cute. Wholesome. I'm sure the dorks on Reddit kicking up a storm about it totally know what they're talking about and can take into account the distinction between the terminology used by the US and Japanese LGBT communities and the differences that creates for localization. I'm sure they aren't just going with a strict words-as-literal translation and falling into the exact same pitfalls they're accusing the official translators of doing, with the additional layer of transphobic nonsense that tends to come with.

Siiiiiigh

#i think i turned my childhood friend into a girl #lgbt #manga #seven seas #trans #femboy #otokonoko #translating anything queer from japanese to english ia going to lean hard on localization #the culture and terminology there is just so different than what we use

[revcleo]

English Romanichal and Irish Traveller activists and a German Sinte activist who attended the First World Romani Congress in 1971 all agreed that all Romani and Traveller groups should be covered by the ethnonym "Rom/Roma" even though the word had a different meaning in their dialects. But in Germany in the 1970s the condescension of immigrant Roma led to a backlash in which Sinte insisted on their own name being used. A similar reaction after the mass migration of East European Roma to the United Kingdom from the 1990s has led to English Romanichals in the UK insisting strongly on the legitimacy of the the English word "Gypsies" to describe themselves, although the same reaction has not occurred in North America, where Romanichal activists often support the Roma assertion that "Gypsy" is a demeaning exonym. But in England, former Gypsy Council chairman Joe G. Jones expressed majority sentiment when he said 'Our ancestors were killed because they called themselves Gypsies. Today we will not let anybody tell us we cannot call ourselves "Gypsies”!’ "Gypsies, Roma and Travellers" is now the English-English equivalent of German "Sinti und Roma" and Euro-English "Romas".

#english vs american terminology #gypsy history #roma history

[theflyingfeeling]

so I'm going through the course contents of the courses I'll be teaching in my new job (yesssss it hasn't been cancelled wohoo) and I'm equal parts scared scared oh so scared because I have no idea if I'm at all qualified to teach any of this stuff, but at the same time I'm ridiculously excited because I get to teach about e.g. phonetics and I fucking love phonetics?? 😭

#i know the students will likely be slightly less thrilled than i am because phonetics can be a pain in the ass #it takes a while to get used to the terminology etc. #also writing!! i get to teach writing!! 😭😭😭😭😭 #i mean yeah i got to teach writing to highschoolers in my previous job too but it was...not quite the same let's put it like that :) #i'm feeling super tired though from feeling sadsadsad all weekend and from staying up so late to write my new fic #but i'm having the time of my life reading through all the course materials for phonetics aaaaaaa #did you know assimilation affects alveolar consonants t d n s z more than other consonants? 🥰 #my absolute dream job would be to teach joel proper pronunciation of english lol

[agardenintheshire]

woke up, made food, went to the indie cinema to stitch the film we're showing on friday together for 3 hours, came home, made more food, made shitty valentines day cards for my friends, levelled up my dnd character. happy valentines day. i would like to be loved.

#personal #waaaah waaah waaah whiny post from the single woman. how original #even though i'm sad now the stitching the film together was really cool. idk the proper english terminology though and google isn't helping #oh well. ill have some more food watch a silly movey and go to bed

[beeb-oob]

Finished my biology finals today it was a lot of fun

#so much knowledge in my spec bio obsessed brain has been validated #can't really flex it in english cuz terminology and stuff #but still #love bio

[boycum3000]

I think my most cancelable take is that I'd rather put energy towards re-naming the disorder of Narcissism than put energy towards trying to get people to stop using the word narcissist casually....

#like. it is NOT good or objective medical terminology. like if something in the DSM is named after Greek Mythology... yeah of COURSE its #actual meaning and use is going to get muddied by colloquial usage. like. people dont call each other narcissists because they have a #fundamental misunderstanding of the disorder with the same name (though they probably do) they use it because it comes from fucking. #NARCISSUS. THE MYTH. and has been in the english/western consciousness probably far before the disorder was... like. I cant stress enough #how important naming can be w this shit. idk. Chat is this anything ? #this all being said. I dont think an actual change is likely to happen so in the mean time. some people should put the word up on the shelf👍

[wastheheart]

if you think that carlisle and esme aren't going to local school board meetings and fighting for t.rans rights and reproductive education, you're wrong. carlisle is often also the medical expert who stands for local/state hearings on bills that threaten lg.btq and reproductive rights.

#ooc #tbd #y'all have to bear with me when it comes to proper terminology #this english person has somewhat of a bearing on american judicial proceedings #but it's also ✨ a lot ✨

[pinkgrapefloyd]

currently writing a cobra kai fencing au because i have great self control :D

#cobra kai #fencing #pinkgrapefloyd #lawrusso #still debating what i should call it #also i did not learn fencing in english so the terminology is gonna kick my whole ass #another wip you can look forward to! aaaaaayyyyy