Re:Tech journalism is less diverse than tech (2020)
by 8note on Friday November 19, 2021 @05:49PM
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You still have advantages in how the tests are written. The questions still privilege people who grow up speaking a specific version of English
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Re:Tech journalism is less diverse than tech (2020)
by rayiner on Saturday November 20, 2021 @12:04AM
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I’m ESL and no they don’t. They privilege people who read a lot.
Re:Tech journalism is less diverse than tech (2020)
by 1cvmask on Friday November 19, 2021 @06:52PM
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For sure. Although one thing that has baffled me is that all Swiss Germans do their school work in traditional German and NOT the language they speak. Swiss Germans understand Germans but the vice versa is not always true:
The dialects of Swiss German must not be confused with Swiss Standard German, the variety of Standard German used in Switzerland. Most people in Germany do not understand Swiss German. Therefore, when an interview with a Swiss German speaker is shown on German television, subtitles are required.[6] Although Swiss German is the native language, from age 6, Swiss school students additionally learn Swiss Standard German at school and are thus capable of understanding, writing and speaking Standard German with varying abilities mainly based on the level of education.