#MedievalTwitter #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race from the scholarly global lingua francas (usually colonial European languages). Scholarship should be more multilingual for access and equity. Scholarship written in Latin is not about that, it's about white gatekeeping. 12/
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#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race so in relation to the use of the term philology vs. linguistics, the former has a lot of baggage in relation to white supremacy, origins/history of language as a form of white eugenics supremacy, and the latter actually a field of study 13/1 reply 0 retweets 14 likesShow this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race in which sociolinguistics is a thing, people do statistical & computational linguistics, where people also talk @ raciolinguistics. So when you say "philology" unless you are critiquing the very long white supremacist history of this 14/1 reply 0 retweets 14 likesShow this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race I think people who wave that term around are stuck in racist 19th c. methods of scholarship. So, in this premodern scholarly world, seeing Latin as the entry test into scholarly circles is an example of white raciolinguistics. 15/1 reply 0 retweets 18 likesShow this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race please come & discuss when you've hung out & done the work of historical linguistics & want to talk @ metrical modeling, syllable weight, conjunctional @ prepositional patterns & forms. Or want to do visual mappings of dialects. 16/1 reply 0 retweets 14 likesShow this thread -
#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 17/1 reply 1 retweet 18 likesShow 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. 18/1 reply 0 retweets 16 likesShow 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) 19/1 reply 0 retweets 16 likesShow 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. 20/1 reply 0 retweets 18 likesShow 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. 21/1 reply 0 retweets 19 likesShow 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/
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#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.1 reply 1 retweet 23 likesShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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