#MedievalTwitter #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race I use Klingon b/c it too is a "dead", non-speaking contemporary language w/ a very intense fandom surrounding it. Scholarship is not fandom. Who exactly did this journal or author think this article was for? 10/
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#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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