#MedievalTwitter #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race ppl have written about that. Also that eugenicist parallel urge to trace "origins" in words as a project of language genetics (stemma and all that). Read Harpaham, Said, etc. You can also read ALL the Sociolinguistics who have written 6/
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#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race Finally, this idea that somehow if you are a BIPOC person must mean your lack of access to "old languages" is so laughable. I begin by pointing out how often BIPOC folks are functionally bilingual or multilingual 17/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race but apparently that linguistic skill cannot funnel into language proficiency in Old Dead languages, like Latin. So let me finish w/ the example of my mother. My mother finished high school but never went to college. 18/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race she was not allowed b/c that meant she had to live away from the family alone in the big city. Mom speaks and reads several languages w/ different script. Her first is Korean; she reads Chinese (b/c the Asian lingua franca) 19/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race she reads & understands Latin, her first Roman alphabet, & then English. She reads & understands Latin b/c Mom's family has been Catholic since the 18th c. & she is pre-Vatican II. 20/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race she missed Japanese b/c born after WWII, grandparents are fluent but never spoke (b/c violent colonialism). Her first exposure to the Roman alphabet was w/ Latin. She has great liturgical Latin. But never been formally school trained. 21/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race for reasons including the devotional Catholic one, Mom's better w/ Latin than w/ English. She hates English. I am sure her Latin is better than quite a few white premodern gatekeepers. But she would never get past the "rigor" gates. 22/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race so don't imagine these moves about "Latin rigor" are ever about actual skills. They are always about white gatekeeping. Feel free to read some sociolinguists or about raciolinguistics to understand how that works. 23/Fin.Show this thread
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