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and at every turning - it's an "ethno-centric" conundrum - either random outbursts of the modern tongue, that can't be said: is repressed - indeed kept intact - and yes, sometimes merely hidden, until it self-demands a presence - and those: are the sweetest moments i can ever and never will forget to fathom: that seemingly long lost essence of what i am grounded in - and fervently explore in the tongue of acquisition, that i can confuse an english psychiatrist whether to think me a schizophrenic, or merely bilingual; so lets not kneel before the altar of stigmata & taboo, but therein is the common fear, and how it feeds and encourages a respect through that same commodity, of being common. thus having relinquished one's state of infantile pressures of language - you can move toward the beyond... indeed, i have nostalgia not so much for a country, but for a childhood - upon several return visists i find the land and town of origin unrecognißable! why? the child i was and remember isn't there! the metallurgy factory that employed 15,000+ men shut down, and thus the bright itching dodo: a town of pensioners, old communist and deßerters... i pledge no allegiance to either flag or land or a former **** but language? well, i can allow its spontaneous emergence as it sways me in this appropriated tongue... but let's be frank, certain prejudices can be translated, all to well, in england, as too in scootland - i didn't spend 3 years among the picts for no ****** reason, ah you see, if the americans have a derogatory term for this western slavic group i am and i'm not part of - thank you very much for the supposed "derogatory" term ****** - you said beautifully in my mothers room, thank you once again for not confusing with poles and mahogany polish - thank youn paul; but you want to know a secret? what do you think the polacks call germans? no clue? *schwaby / szwaby / swabians - shvaby*... polak, polski, po polsku, po ludzku (a pole, pauleesh, in pauleesh, in **** lingua).
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Jul 19, 2017
Jul 19, 2017 at 8:07 AM UTC
derogatory terms
and at every turning - it's an "ethno-centric" conundrum - either random outbursts of the modern tongue, that can't be said: is repressed - indeed kept intact - and yes, sometimes merely hidden, until it self-demands a presence - and those: are the sweetest moments i can ever and never will forget to fathom: that seemingly long lost essence of what i am grounded in - and fervently explore in the tongue of acquisition, that i can confuse an english psychiatrist whether to think me a schizophrenic, or merely bilingual; so lets not kneel before the altar of stigmata & taboo, but therein is the common fear, and how it feeds and encourages a respect through that same commodity, of being common. thus having relinquished one's state of infantile pressures of language - you can move toward the beyond... indeed, i have nostalgia not so much for a country, but for a childhood - upon several return visists i find the land and town of origin unrecognißable! why? the child i was and remember isn't there! the metallurgy factory that employed 15,000+ men shut down, and thus the bright itching dodo: a town of pensioners, old communist and deßerters... i pledge no allegiance to either flag or land or a former **** but language? well, i can allow its spontaneous emergence as it sways me in this appropriated tongue... but let's be frank, certain prejudices can be translated, all to well, in england, as too in scootland - i didn't spend 3 years among the picts for no ****** reason, ah you see, if the americans have a derogatory term for this western slavic group i am and i'm not part of - thank you very much for the supposed "derogatory" term ****** - you said beautifully in my mothers room, thank you once again for not confusing with poles and mahogany polish - thank youn paul; but you want to know a secret? what do you think the polacks call germans? no clue? *schwaby / szwaby / swabians - shvaby*... polak, polski, po polsku, po ludzku (a pole, pauleesh, in pauleesh, in **** lingua).
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