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“திருக்குறள் எந்த அரசனையும் உயர்த்தி பிடிக்கவில்லை.. இறைவனையும் உயர்த்தி பிடிக்கவில்லை.. எந்த சமய சாயத்தையும் பூசிக் கொள்ளாமல் அகில உலக மாந்தர் குலத்திற்காக பாடப்பட்ட பொதுமறை நூல் திருக்குறள்” - நீதிபதி என். ஆனந்த் வெங்கடேஷ் #AnandVenkatesh | #Judge | #MadrasHighCourt | #HighCourt | #TamilLanguage | #Tamil | #thirukural

IN CONSTRUCTION Human beings are only healthy when they are still in construction (intellectually). Aging starts when they become a self-museum.

Telling someone who has experienced accent discrimination that everyone has an accent is not the kind of comforting they need. They need acknowledgment that accents are hierarchized in terms of race, class, nationality, and so on.

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@ayesha_chari @lynneguist The British call it biscuits and the Americans prefer to call it cookies. Lynne Murphy said biscuits harden on kept in the refrigerator, while the cake remains soft. So they won't accept a cake as a biscuit.

Jaffa Cake is UK's favourite biscuit. People didn't like a cake being called a biscuit. @lynneguist #ciep2024

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Peter Theil says the reason the Paypal mafia exists today isn't because of his hiring techniques but how he managed those people. Things like extreme bias for action, cult-like company culture, and "one thing" management philosophy. Founders must understand how it works:

@lynneguist Thank you for the wonderful talk. This one is for the record.

#Ciep2024 draws to a close after a raffle... Congratulations to the winners! Terrific two days!! Thank you, @The_CIEP

There she ends saying she is not a pedant but an expert.... @lynneguist #ciep2024

What do we do with all this? We embarce uncertainty. Is you context clear? Does the reader know? Is the word choice carrying excessive baggage? @lynneguist #ciep2024

What is an error? It's not something people say, it's spelling or grammatical error, it's not in this particular style guid, it's a split infinitive, it's passive, you should avoid this... We think of it as errors only after somebody gave it a name. @lynneguist #ciep2024

What is a noun? Semantic criteria: a word for person, place or thing. Grammatical criteria: can be definite or indefinite noun phrase, can be singular or plural, can be made possessive. @lynneguist #ciep2024

What is a word? 'Throuples dating app Feeld nearly doubles turnover to £39.5 m'. Nine words?

Bilingual is hard to define... @lynneguist #ciep2024

Who is bilingual? Is Scots different language from English? Is Flemish different from English? Is there any such thing as British English ... or American English? @lynneguist #ciep2024

Laypeople think of categories as real. @lynneguist #ciep2024

George L. Murphy: Categories We Live By. How We Classify Everyone and Everything. Chapter 6 on psychodiagnostic categories. How clinicians and laypeople think about mental illness categories is interesting. @lynneguist #ciep2024

@TSA says peanut butter is a liquid. You can only carry 100 ml in a flight but you can put it in a sandwich and carry as much as you want. @lynneguist #ciep2024