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“
Pilgrim of Language (Sonnet)
How will you know if you
can speak another language?
If you can curse someone
on impulse without memorizing,
you got the language in your gut.
If you can console someone in pain,
the language nestles in your heart.
No es necessario que hablar guapisimo,
solamente necessario que hablar amable.
All those pedestals of language levels,
a, b, z, and what not, are elitist garbage.
Chase after form,
and you'll miss the soul -
throw yourself into the soul,
and neurons wi
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― Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
― Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
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Earlier this year, a self-identified White, monolingual English-speaking teacher explained to me that, among other signs of her stupidity, Dr Baez’s English language skills are ‘horrible, and from what I hear, her Spanish isn’t that good either’...If Dr Baez, the bilingual school principal with multiple university degrees, including a doctorate in education, was subjected to such discriminatory thinking, then what could this mean for students, who were positioned in highly subordinate institutio
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― Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad
― Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad
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