I would pay good money to have Jed and Maurissa doing a Coulson eternal recurrence/return for the MCU. And I want the harbinger to be a one-shot of his continued evasion of an increasingly baffled and frustrated Rio Vidal.

"We cannot let them win! We cannot let them define us! Do you understand that? We are not agents of nothing, we are agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and that still carries weight! It has to carry weight. After everything we've been through, that carries weight!"

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.

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.

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

😂😂😂

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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 -

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

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-

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