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It benefits the powerful at the expense of the powerless, reassuring the colonizer that they are not to blame. Languages are not lost, they are taken. They are uprooted by malice or neglect, their speakers assimilated into a new tongue, or
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“In 1984, the first Hawaiian immersion kindergarten had opened on Kaua’i, and more began popping up throughout the islands.19 Two years later, a bill allowing Hawaiian to be used as a medium of instruction in public schools passed,”
― Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language
― Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language
“In 1999, for the first time in over a century, a class of students educated entirely in Hawaiian from the age of four to eighteen graduated,”
― Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language
― Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language
“It’s true that, in Vietnamese, we rarely say I love you, and when we do, it is almost always in English. Care and love, for us, are pronounced clearest through service: plucking white hairs, pressing yourself on your son to absorb a plane’s turbulence and, therefore, his fear.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Is the position hopeless? It is, of course, if we are content to give up hope. There is nothing in the world more comfortable than to give up hope. For then one can go on to enjoy life.”
― Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language
― Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language
“Two languages cancel each other out, suggests Barthes, beckoning a third. Sometimes our words are few and far between, or simply ghosted. In which case the hand, although limited by the borders of skin and cartilage, can be that third language that animates where the tongue falters.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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