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ModernDayBartleby

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Used to write a lot about #KoreanCinema at koreanfilm.org before the Oscar win.

Read a ton of non-fiction about various topics such as #Cinema, #DisabilityStudies, #ActiveTransport, #UrbanStudies, #Linguistics, #SportsStudies, and other random topics such as the history of the doughnut in Canada.

I teach Englishes. The plural is important. Descriptivism always over Prescriptivism.

He/They.

#NowReading2023 #NowReading2024 for books I'm reading
#TIW2023 #TIW2024 for films I've watched

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@staff Howdy Admins: I am ignorant of how I can find my own old toots through Search. I type in my handle & a keyword I know I used and nothing shows up. I have my 2 privacy settings set to public. What is it I don't understand about how Mastodon works? Thanks

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My grammar pet peeve is grammar pet peeves.

Just posted about how I disagree with the (often condescending) insistence on using French grammar in English for French borrows like "attorney general".

https://moderndaybartleby.wordpress.com/2024/04/15/if-your-neighborhood-has-more-than-one-cul-de-sac-it-has/

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@KFosterMarks Yes. Would love to read that. Can this be sent via PMs?

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@KFosterMarks And that the rules reveal themselves in conversation & are open to changing at anytime 😊 Which is waaaaaay more interesting than demanding people speak how we are advised to write

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@jeffluszcz Hey Bud, can you explain to me how to search for my past toots? I am having no luck finding anything using obvious key words

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#MastodonHelp
I'm trying to search my own toots for a specific toot and the from:me option isn't working nor is using my handle. Can anyone help with what I don't understand about Mastodon?

In pre-fasc Twitter, I could just enter my handle and the word & voila, but that doesn't seem to work on Mastodon

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That Tomahawk chant is racist, man!

ModernDayBartleby,
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@Bwheatnyc I actually don't know who they are either. My ALT just describes the picture without knowledge of the actual celebrities

ModernDayBartleby, to linguistics
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Watching the 1979 WAFL Grand Final & have never heard the phrase "have kicked the front" before. My English sociolects would say "kicked [themselves] in front" or "taken the lead". Said in Q3 when South Fremantle takes the lead for the first time
#linguistics
#sports
#AustralianRulesFootball

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The Republican Party is an international crime syndicate of grifters
https://mstdn.social/@tristansnell/111706374204784505

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He was never a journalist to begin with
https://mstdn.social/

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ModernDayBartleby, to random
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The Republican Party is an international crime syndicate
https://mastodon.social/@realTuckFrumper/112072887490465548

ModernDayBartleby, to random
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The Republican Party international crime syndicate were the deplorables we always told you they were
https://sfba.social/@talzag/111851646712432191

ModernDayBartleby, to random
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The Republican Party is an international crime syndicate
https://mastodon.world/

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I'm going to start a new hashtag - #DisagREAD
I'll be using it when I post a book I'm #NowReading where I'm pretty sure I won't agree with the author. It's different from "hate reading" where you despise the writer. It's more professional disagreements in general where I don't want folks to think I'm promoting the author or their ideas in the book but I'm instead reading it to better my counterarguments

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People aren't "stupid" for not knowing what you know. They simply just don't know something you know. Similarly, there are different logics around certain decisions. People aren't stupid if they work from a different logic than you, just different. Jumping to stupid is an unrigourous declaration. And ableist

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#Worldle #759 2/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr

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I am not a fan of musicals. But I have to say that the Bollywood reboot of THE ARCHIES on Netflix is delightful

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When did "sharp rhetoric" become a euphemism for "racist"?
https://press.coop/@NPR/111906605796537278

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We should just start calling April Fool's Day, "Generative AI Day"

ModernDayBartleby, to random
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The Republican Party is an international crime syndicate
https://mastodon.social/@intlmonitor/111893579256037424

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The Republican Party is an international crime syndicate
https://mstdn.social/@Mediagazer/111895395241573259

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The Republican Party is an international crime syndicate
https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/111913041669038561

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The Republican Party is an international crime syndicate
https://press.coop/@guardian/111878830460423947

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