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Yael Peled

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A language ethicist in the baking. Research fellow at the MPI MMG (www.mmg.mpg.de/home); website: www.peledy.com.

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · Sep 9

#solidarity

Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · Sep 8

If there were ever a time for white Americans to learn a language besides English and speak it loudly in public, it's now.

Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · Sep 6

I always thought my classical Egyptian training would eventually be useful somehow for my pol theory work. I guess it's my hieroglyphic time to shine.

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Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · Aug 30

Or this one: a monolingual Anglophone nurse hears a patient speaking unintelligibly, assume it's delirium, until an L2 English speaking nurse recognises the language. The dying person isn't babbling; they've reverted to a mother tongue at the end of life.

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Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · Aug 30

Why I do what I do: met a former palliative care nurse & was describing how devout Muslims can hold up a single finger to represent the Shahadah if they're unable to speak. She'd never heard of this.

"I wonder how many times nurses see this, think someone is agitated, and drug them."

Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · Aug 26

(Her speech bubble string could be fun DL Latin material).

Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · Aug 26

😂😂😂

Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · Aug 26

I swear my first thought seeing the image was "what is this hellish duolingo ghost rider streak thing"?... The crossover possibilities, my God.

Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · Aug 3

There's something almost funny about how sometimes it's easier for L1 users of other Englishes and L2 English users to get a clearer (and more analytic) sense of that ontological conflation.

Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · Aug 3

Exactly. And, paradoxically, this very much goes back to the kind of sneaky conflation of very different types of "we" in the kind of professional English in question. Is it the editorial one? The authorial one? The generic one? The pseudo-inclusive one?

Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · Aug 3

So much to say... but also so much still to investigate, to move away from arbitrary personal convictions imposed as authoritative, to a more systematic framework that can help colleagues not just understand the injustices/inequities, but also what pragmatic and best practices could be implemented.

Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · Aug 3

insercurity in an already heavily-stressful profession (and discipline).

Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · Aug 3

So much this. Plus, proficiency in written academic English should in no way be simply assumed to be linked to a particular kind of proficiency in *speaking* English, or even using spoken languages at all as L1. So many layers of linguistic ideologies, so much unnecessary stress, anxiety and -

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Lukas Schmid @lukasschmid.bsky.social · Jul 24

For your summer reading: In a new piece on the ethics of migration policy dilemmas, we explain why a 'myth busting' approach to migration policy is insufficient and sometimes misleading.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Jul 24

#OpenAccess from the latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs -

Beyond Myth Busting: How Engagement with Ethical Dilemmas Can Improve Debates and Policymaking on Migration - cup.org/4f6dbuy

- @lukasschmid.bsky.social, Martin Ruhs, Rainer Bauböck & @julia-mp.bsky.social

Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · Jul 29

Language technologies don't invalidate the case for language awareness as a basic life skill; they emphasize how crucial it is.

WIRED @wired.com · Jul 29

AI chatbots strip language of its historical and cultural context. Sometimes what looks like a satanic bloodletting ritual may actually be lifted from Warhammer 40,000. www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

The Real Demon Inside ChatGPT

AI chatbots strip language of its historical and cultural context. Sometimes what looks like a satanic bloodletting ritual may actually be lifted from Warhammer 40,000.

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Maarit Koponen @mtkopon.bsky.social · Jul 29

The historical and cultural context of language is also very significant in translation. Knowing the background of terms, expressions, allusions etc. and what cultural, historical and intertextual connections and connotations they carry in the source & target is a major issue

WIRED @wired.com · Jul 29

AI chatbots strip language of its historical and cultural context. Sometimes what looks like a satanic bloodletting ritual may actually be lifted from Warhammer 40,000. www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

The Real Demon Inside ChatGPT

AI chatbots strip language of its historical and cultural context. Sometimes what looks like a satanic bloodletting ritual may actually be lifted from Warhammer 40,000.

Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · Jul 28

3/ IPs may ultimately undermine integration goals by delaying and demotivating the transition to the workforce and social autonomy."

Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · Jul 28

2/ or derail them from – social and legal integration though citizenship? And in discounting refugees’ previously acquired competences, or good faith efforts to complete introductory integration that may still fall short of arbitrary, language pass rates-

Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · Jul 28

1/ "In sum, despite intentions to set newcomers on paths to employment and civic autonomy, participants experience the IP as a set of competing goals. Does early employment strengthen or undermine language education? Does lengthy language and KoS education prepare individuals for –

Sara Wallace Goodman @saragoodman.bsky.social · Jul 28

Happy to share my latest: "How introduction programs help and hinder refugee integration: evidence from Norway", coauthored with Edit Bugge and Marte Nordanger, is now online at @scmrjems.bsky.social (a short thread) 1/9
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How introduction programs help and hinder refugee integration: evidence from Norway

This study examines the impact of immigrant integration programmes on low-literate refugees, focusing on the Norwegian Introduction Programme (IP). Like other obligatory integration courses across ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · Jul 22

Nothing to see here, just messianic racist war criminals having a conference about messianic war criminal things and other "tremendous opportunities" for crimes against humanity in the Knesset

Smotrich: Gaza will be ‘inseparable part of Israel,’ IDF chief favors ‘security annexation’

At Knesset conference on 'Gaza Riviera,' whose name and focus play off Trump announcement, far-right finance minister touts 'tremendous opportunity' to reestablish settlements in Strip

www.timesofisrael.com

Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · Jul 22

Signal boost: CALL FOR PAPERS for the Sixth REAL symposium on language economics and policy. Full details: www.ulster.ac.uk/__data/asset...

www.ulster.ac.uk

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · Jul 21

“Once people get a taste for humiliating, they will fight very hard to be able to keep doing it. Like an addiction, the competitively powerful will often put this urge above all else and behave in profoundly self-destructive ways to chase it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/

The Politics of Humiliation

The politics of humiliation has moved to the center of the reactionary project under Trump II.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Lynn Chiu @drlynnchiu.bsky.social · Jul 20

While #ISHPSSB2025 is underway, I'd just like to draw attention to an opportunity at University of Vienna @univie.ac.at for international researchers: senior & early-career fellowships at the new #Vienna Center for Advanced Studies #ViCAS vicas.univie.ac.at

Deadline: Sept 1, 2025. Please apply!

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Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · Jul 20

Really wish I could be there. Lots of lemons to you both!

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · Jul 17

So it is worth repeating - people will die as a result of this executive order: www.languageonthemove.com/language-acc...

Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social · Jul 16

One of my favourite parts of the Yiddish LotR translation is Sam's love letter to potatoes. It works really, really well.

Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · Jul 15

Reading Winnie the Pooh in Yiddish is harder than I would have thought but very much worth it to see Pooh shout OY GEVALD as he tumbles out of a tree while trying to nab some honey

Text of Winnie the Pooh in Yiddish: Oy gevald! Pooh gave a cry as he fell ten feet onto the branch below him