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Talk Proto-Indo-European to me, darling
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*wīrós (man), *h₁ék̂wōs (horse), *gwéneh₂ (woman)
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My tongue is Simón Bolívar’s wet dream
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My boyfriend had colombianized my Mexican. But my friends had also argentinized it, chileanized it, venezuelized it, ecuadorized it.
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One last round | Son bir şans
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English or Turkish? Tipsy or çakırkeyf? A letter to a bi-lingual editor
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Animal game
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A story about family. « ‘A woman of few words,’ he smiled. ‘How refreshing.’ »
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Cannibalinguistics
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Language-learning and people-eating in Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi’s The Centre.
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Europe disenchanted
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A broad cast of characters who almost all speak to a solitary woe. This is Europe?
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Beamer, Dressman, Bodybag
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On the unexpected joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish & global Englisch. « My own language, made camp. »
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The pulverization of memory
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Write your memoir in a hostile tongue. On Marina Jarre, from Latvia to Italy and back.
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« When I was silent… » — Interview with Sulaiman Addonia
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Stop! I am doing what they all do: presenting writer Sulaiman Addonia as one-who-has-suffered, because he grew up as a refugee. It is a problem of genre. Suffering has become an interviewer’s crutch.
