#MedievalTwitter #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race you are literally imagining that someone (who is a Black woman) should not be a premodern scholar b/c someone decided to write a scholarly article in Klingon (Latin) and so they can't really be a "fan/scholar" of Star Trek (premodern) .9/
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#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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