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The opposite of a homophobic in my mind would not be an ally, since someone who is homophobic do not like queer people (including those outside of the community who still identify people as gay), but ally means you are in allience/support the community. So, i naturally assumed the oppoosite of homphobic would be a homophile, but my friend says its still an ally. What is your take on this argument?

Another third argument, which I found interesting, was that it doesn't go for each side: If Homophobia is to hate/dislike gay people, wouldn't the opposite of that be to hate/dislike straight people?

Please (give a clear verdict picking one, not saying both work based on either the linguistics and social roles, we would like to have a way to say it correctly, and a single answer.

Hola a todos :)

Esta es la primera vez que hago una publicación en Reddit, así que no sé muy bien cómo saldrá.

Desde la Universidad de Barcelona estamos haciendo una investigación sobre cómo influyen los roles de género en la transmisión intergeneracional del quechua y necesitamos encontrar a voluntarios y voluntarias que se presten a unas pequeñas entrevistas de 10-15 min en las cuales nos cuenten experiencias respecto a la lengua.

Buscamos perfiles variados: no importa el género ni la edad, ya que nos interesa contar con personas de diferentes generaciones y contextos.

Por supuesto, todo lo hablado en la entrevista se tratará con anonimato para proteger la identidad de las personas prestadas.

¿Alguien sabe con quién puedo contactar para hacerlo o de alguien que pueda estar interesado?

¡Muchas gracias!

suppose you were given a lengthy text in an unknown language, written in an unknown script. you have no way of knowing anything about the language or the script from just this text. however, you are given an offer: provide at most 10 sentences, containing at most 10 words each, written in your dialect of english with proper grammar, and those sentences will be perfectly translated into the foreign language, in the foreign script, acting as a rosetta stone between the foreign language and english. what sentences, or what kinds of sentences would you like translated?

i don't have an answer for this, this is just a thought experiment/discussion. i'm curious what people's instincts are. don't feel the need to actually provide 10 sentences, i'm mainly looking for general thoughts

I thought I had a speech impediment.
That I was slow.
That maybe a muscle in my face had been torn wrong at birth.

But later I realized it was just an accent.

My tongue is the first in my bloodline forced to dance to this tune.
My mouth still reaches for home every time it opens.

English sits heavy on me.
Like teaching a river to flow backward.
Like tying branches of a tree into shapes they were never meant to grow.

My mouth reacts like a reflex.
Like autocorrect.
Constantly translating before I even have the chance to think.
Bending sounds into something more acceptable.
Something easier for others to digest.

There are certain words my tongue still trips over,
not because it is broken,
but because it remembers another language first.

People hear hesitation.
I hear generations colliding inside my mouth.

My mother tongue lives in the muscles of my face,
in the way I roll my r’s too long,
in the pauses where Spanish still tries to save me before English arrives.

Sometimes I envy people whose mouths were born belonging here.
Whose sentences walk out effortlessly without an accent dragging behind them like luggage.

But then I remember:
my tongue crossed borders before the rest of me ever could.

It survived.
Even after being bent into new sounds,
it still carries the echo of where I came from.

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