Listen #medievaltwitter I love you but if any one of you uses the term "vernacular" again without DEFINING IT I am going to have a fit.
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#medievaltwitter Our understanding of English as a "vernacular" in the late Middle Ages has very specific roots in philology and treating "vernacular" as self-evident is more reflective of modern constructions of language.1 reply 0 retweets 4 likesShow this thread -
#medievaltwitter You can't automatically implicate vernacular language use when talking abt nat'l identity bc conflation of lang and nation *doesn't exist in England yet.* STOP IT. That is not how lang works! Signed, a frustrated medievalist who does theoretical sociolinguistics.3 replies 0 retweets 10 likesShow this thread
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