#PartOfSpeech

[keybladespirit]

(So this kinda turned into something way bigger and less related to the original post than I originally planned. But I also think that it's interesting so I'm gonna post it all anyway. I hope that's alright.)

Never forget that Hillary Duff starred in an Ad Council PSA specifically about this topic. It was already being reclaimed by that point and queer is a pretty similar case. It's fine. I'd say it's even past the point of just being reclaimed by now.

That said, the concept of what even is a slur is really interesting. Like colloquially we can kinda just go by the heuristic of, "It's a word that is used as an insult on the basis of its connection to some minoritized group," but there's potentially more to it than that? Like, some words are slurs when they're part of one syntactic category but not others, and there's intersections of identities that have influence here too.

(Bit of context here, "[word]_[PARTOFSPEECH] in this case means that the word is being used as that part of speech. Maybe basic, but I wanna be safe because I don't know what everyone who might read this knows.)

Like, I'm personally fine with queer_ADJ and gay_ADJ, but I'm pretty uncomfortable with queer_NOUN and gay_NOUN. But those noun usages were pretty common among older generations of queer people, some of whom react to their adjective usages as though they're slurs.

So with that being said, I think maybe a better definition of a slur would be something like, "A word which, in the mind of the listener, indexes bigotry against some group and as a result functions to alienate members of that group from the speaker." It's still imperfect (among other issues, this would make "cracker" in reference to a white person a slur in certain cases) and probably requires a lot of study and probably an experiment that I am neither qualified to devise nor conduct in order to nail down something really concrete, but I also don't think it's a useful enough definition?

If queer is a slur, then so is gay.

So is lesbian. Butch.

Homosexual. Fairy. Fruity.

Like come on, guys.

It was like ten years ago that everyone called something gay when it was "bad."

We reclaim words.

Don't forget what they used to call us, but use it freely, or choose not to.

But don't police other people who gladly embrace the words they used to hurt us, and making them our own.

[thepalmspringslinguist]

Discover that there are 4 parts of speech in English that most teachers and dictionaries never even acknowledged while exploring The Coachella Valley Preserve, a bona fide desert oasis 45 minutes drive from Palm Springs, California.

[wikigetze]

#wikigetze 🤓 Part of speech: a category to which a word is assigned in accordance with its syntactic functions. In English the main parts of speech are noun, pronoun, adjective, determiner, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. #grammar #partofspeech #definition #english #teacher #getzetips #getzefacts https://www.instagram.com/p/CIR7hqNB2IZ/?igshid=kci060qqinop

[maverix2020]

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[negiup4]

Part of speech of a word is decided by how it's used not by the word itself #partofspeech #negiup #original #negiup_original #english #grammarmemes https://www.instagram.com/p/CBaRJlBHgW9/?igshid=1jib2h0hcjg1r

[jeriann-alexa-tabor-blog]

Adjectives are interesting!

Hello everybody! This is my first blog and its about my favorite Part of Speech.

My favorite Part of Speech is Adjective.Why Adjective? For me adjective is really important because we use it everyday. We are describing everything we see every single moment and that is what Adjective for. Adjective modifies and describes everything. It is really helpful because it makes your speaking and writing much more specific. It also helps you to make your word or something sounds a lot more interesting.

Adjectives are really important because it describe Nouns and when there are no Adjectives Nouns will sound so plain. Adjectives gives life or color in words. Adjective is my favorite from all part of speech. I like describing every little thing I see, of course with positive one. :) 

[englishlessonsclass]

Adverbial

What can be an adverbial?

1. ADVERB PHRASES  (Adv P) (including single adverbs that can be modified):

 Reporters take notes quickly – very quickly.

[blackboardenglish]

What is the difference between bad and badly, happy and happily, quick and quickly. Let me know. . . . #Inglês #blackboardenglish #grammar #englishvideo #englishlesson #vocabulary #partofspeech #adjective #adverb #englishquiz #learnenglish #englishlearn (at London, United Kingdom)

[cricmain]

Skippers Kohli And Kane Revealing Their Admiration For Each Other is Adorable | WATCH #KaneWilliamson #Cricket #OneDayInternational #NewZealand #ViratKohli #Captain #Kane #India #Skipper #Tikitaka #Batting #LimitedOversCricket #ODI #PartOfSpeech #FrenchShipFormidable Ahead of India’s first One Day International against New Zealand, Virat Kohli and Kane Williamson- skippers of their respective teams have heaped praise on each other. https://cricmain.com/2019/01/22/skippers-kohli-and-kane-revealing-their-admiration-for-each-other-is-adorable-watch/

[cleverlearncebu]

What is Noun? A noun is a part of speech denoting the name of a person, animals, things, ideas or places. www.celi.edu.ph | www.celi.vn | www.celi.jpn.com | www.celi.cn.com | www.celi.tw | www.celi.sa.com | www.celi.ru.com | www.celi.ae

[average-nature-loving-girl]

"I was perfectly happy killing myself but then you asked me to try, and for the first time in my life it felt like someone actually gave a shit, and that person was worth trying for." #SkinsUK #Chris #PartOfSpeech #Jal #GenerationOne

[maverix2020]

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[englishlessonsclass]

#Sentence #Patterns #grammar #SPOVA

Label and bar them in terms of S, P, Od, Oi, Cs, Co, and A or (A).

[englishlessonsclass]

#Noun #clauses:

Noun clauses are often utilized in variety of the way and thus have different function in sentence. #grammar #study #sentence #English #classof2022

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