🇪🇺 Yet Another Owl🕯️🕊️Mar 16, 2025

DT thinks some accents are ‘beautiful’ — but why?

#english #englishes #accents #neutralAccents #naturalAccents #languages #linguistics

https://www.alternet.org/donald-trump-thinks-some-accents-are-beautiful-but-why/

Donald Trump thinks some accents are ‘beautiful’ — but why?

United States President Donald Trump has recently been commenting on accents while meeting foreign leaders and taking questions from foreign journalists. Trump praised British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s “beautiful” accent, saying he would have been president 20 years ago if he’d had that accent. ...

Alternet.org
Annette C. BoehmMar 13, 2025

Insightful, heartening read by Mia You on (non) native English, (poetry) translation, and who owns language:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/1659311/poets-on-translation-the-alternative-speaker

"The English of possibility. The English in the imagination. The English reclaimed and reinvented by the (neo-)colonized speaker. You find a way to stretch the language to fit you and your stray prepositions."

#englishes #translation #poetry #language #MastoPoets

Poets on Translation: The (Alter)native Speaker

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

The Poetry Foundation
Seo-Young Chu, PhD (she/her)Sep 5, 2023

Should “Departments of English” be replaced with “Departments of Englishes”?

#English #Englishes #Academia

(Claire) Cherry EditsNov 15, 2022
This is a nice way to deal with this, Caimh McDonnell. 👏 #Englishes
jansegersMay 28, 2017

David Crystal - World Englishes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_q9b9YqGRY

toot ! 🐘

#DavidCrystal #English #Englishes
#toki #Inli #tele