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Foreign Language
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His mind traced the arabesques and coils of an alphabet that looked like music sounded.
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― Strange the Dreamer
― Strange the Dreamer
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Whether you're native or foreign to a language isn't determined by blood, it's determined by whether you have to translate it in your head from another language.
Nativity of language has nothing to do with literacy or grammatical accuracy - any language that comes to you naturally, any language that bypasses the translation circuits of your brain, and forms spontaneous speech, albeit flawed, is your native language.
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― Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
― Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
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