Kylie notices interesting things on Twitter, and when she does, she tags them: One for @talkrtr

So today we’re poring over them. Is lab meat ‘meat’? How do you pronounce ‘scone’? What happens when we use dehumanising language?

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Show notes

Australian regulators will soon be faced with a challenge: can animal flesh produced in a lab be called meat?

What do you think?https://t.co/Wh6BbH7vGN

— The Conversation (@ConversationEDU) 25 March 2018

Should lab-grown meat be labelled as meat when it’s available for sale?
https://theconversation.com/should-lab-grown-meat-be-labelled-as-meat-when-its-available-for-sale-93129

Dear Twitter, it’s time to resolve The Great Scone Debate once and for all! #GBBO pic.twitter.com/p0XO9QpaNJ

— British Bake Off (@BritishBakeOff) 13 March 2018

Etymology of Meat
http://etymologynow.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/etymology-of-meat.html

Do you pronounce ‘scone’ to rhyme with ‘cone’ or ‘gone’? It depends where you’re from
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/23/how-do-you-pronounce-scone-answer-says-a-lot-english-language-day-shakespeare-birthday

Cambridge app maps decline in regional diversity of English dialects
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-app-maps-decline-in-regional-diversity-of-english-dialects

Dialects of American English Survey
https://www.dialectsofenglish.com

Mapping Words Around Australia
https://lingroadshow.com/resources/englishes-in-australia/vocabulary/mapping-words-around-australia/

D&D Creatures Created By A Neural Network Are Weird https://t.co/t2ramAoXMS pic.twitter.com/xwnA9v4f8A

— Ketan Joshi (@KetanJ0) 26 March 2018

D&D Creatures Created By A Neural Network Are Weird
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2018/03/dd-creatures-created-by-a-neural-network-are-weird/

Dungeons and Dragons creatures, generated by neural network
http://aiweirdness.com/post/172170729017/dungeons-and-dragons-creatures-generated-by

President of the United States suggests that immigrants are “snakes,” the kind of dehumanizing language that dictators use to scapegoat minority groups. https://t.co/2OQgeukGc0 pic.twitter.com/aM985tp2Ay

— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) 25 February 2018

‘The Snake’: How Trump appropriated a radical black singer’s lyrics for immigration fearmongering
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/02/24/the-snake-how-trump-appropriated-a-radical-black-singers-lyrics-for-refugee-fearmongering/

Why the language we use to talk about refugees matters so much
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/07/30/why-the-language-we-use-to-talk-about-refugees-matters-so-much/

Swarms and marauders: the dehumanising language of migration
http://www.cafebabel.co.uk/culture/article/swarms-and-marauders-the-dehumanising-language-of-migration.html

“They’re not even people”: why Eric Trump’s dehumanizing language matters
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/6/7/15755852/eric-trump-not-people-dehumanization

The dark psychology of dehumanization, explained
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/3/7/14456154/dehumanization-psychology-explained

Qapla’! Duolingo’s Klingon Course Is Finally Here https://t.co/qbknBB8Lka

— Jennifer Ouellette (@JenLucPiquant) 15 March 2018

Duolingo: Klingon
https://www.duolingo.com/course/tlh/en/Learn-Klingon-Online

Exclusive from @PatrickStrud: A British council will give employees and members of the public gender pronoun badges to improve trans awareness https://t.co/0NC3SPlKJf pic.twitter.com/JY2KvKtieD

— Mark Di Stefano 🤙🏻 (@MarkDiStef) 7 March 2018

This Local Council Will Give Staff And The Public Gender Badges To Improve Trans Awareness
https://www.buzzfeed.com/patrickstrudwick/brighton-council-will-give-staff-and-the-public-gender