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A letter from
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« Even if you feel at home in time and space today, you know that you are already in mourning for the future loss of everything that is beautiful. This is the first time humanity is mourning in the future tense. »
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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 şansThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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English or Turkish? Tipsy or çakırkeyf? A letter to a bi-lingual editor
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The Barren Nothing-PlaceThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On growing up in the creases of bilingual versions of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
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Letters from PersepolisThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On the ruined city’s pilgrims & decoders
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Animal gameThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A story about family. « ‘A woman of few words,’ he smiled. ‘How refreshing.’ »
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CannibalinguisticsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Language-learning and people-eating in Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi’s The Centre.