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Dave Sayers retweeted
🌍 How can Wales promote the Welsh language without unintended consequences like inequality and social division? @DaveJSayers proposes a "Doughnut Language Policy" to balance linguistic vitality with broader social wellbeing. 🧵👇lspjournal.com/post/doughnut…
Dave Sayers retweeted
Language Problems & Language Planning launches a series of webinars! 19/12/2024 15:30 UTC “History of language policy and planning, and current and emerging trends” with David C. Johnson and J Darquennes. Free registration: tinyurl.com/mw8anzey, #languagepolicy, #weareUU
Dave Sayers retweeted
New publication out in @JournalofSocio1: Language isn't just a data set. We explore why and suggest new directions for sociolinguistic research in the AI era #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… Check out the full issue.
Dave Sayers retweeted
New volume: Minority Language Learning for Adult Migrants in Europe. Grateful for the opportunity to discuss migrants learning Welsh! Thanks @jebsim & Sari Pöyhönen @routledgebooks #wsol #multilingualism #cymraeg
Dave Sayers retweeted
I use a tie just because it restricts oxygen flow to the brain by up to 7 %, and I feel it would't be sporting for all the rest otherwise
Dave Sayers retweeted
Writing a real out of office email would be:
“I will be out of the office until Monday, November 29, but I will be constantly checking email on my phone and additionally will have my work computer nearby”
Dave Sayers retweeted
NEWSFLASH: It's ok to do research with normative goals, actually. Everyone who says otherwise is supporting status quo power imbalances and inequality, which is, drum-roll, also a normative position, just a terrible one. 🤷♀️
Paper under question here:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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The world's smallest ocean island* with shared borders, Märket, between Sweden and Finland.
The border was originally a straight line, but in the mid-1800s, Russia built a lighthouse on the Swedish side. After Finland gained independence from Russia, Sweden asked if they wanted the lighthouse. Finland agreed, and the border was adjusted to what it is today. Now, you can easily take a sauna on the Finnish side and then go for a skinny-dip on the Swedish side.
*Smaller islands with shared borders exist, but they’re all located in lakes or rivers.
Dave Sayers retweeted
"Autottomuus oli tuonut päiviin paljon lisää arkiliikuntaa ja askelia. Muuta muutosta Taivassalo ei ollut päivittäiseen elämäänsä tehnyt"
Kaupungissa voi elää täyttä ja terveellistä elämää ilman että omistaa autoa, jota vuokrataan vain kun sille on tarve.
helsinginuutiset.fi/paikalli…
Dave Sayers retweeted
Arjen säästövinkki jokaiselle.
Second hand -kesävaatteita saa nyt erittäin edullisesti, kun sesonki on ohi. Loistava aika ostaa ensi kesän vaatteet ja kestävöittää omaa kulutusta tuotteiden elinkaaria pidentämällä. Samalla säästyy rahaa.
Kuumin muoti ei kuumemma maapalloa.
Dave Sayers retweeted
No other mode of transportation rivals bicycles in minimizing our impact on the biosphere.
The fact that a machine allows you to effortlessly travel 20 kilometers in an hour without needing an external power source is simply incredible.
"The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created. Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon."
— Bill Strickland @TrueBS
(Chart: Scientific American)
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Dave Sayers retweeted
Still can't quite believe that when a boat carrying people seeking a better life sinks and kills 90, it registers as barely a blip on the news cycle
Yet when a yacht carrying billionaires sinks, it's 3-day front page, rolling live ticker news theguardian.com/world/live/2…
