Making Sense of "Bad English": An Introduction to Language Attitudes and Ideologies (Open Access)
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A much-discussed feature of African American English is the pronunciation of the word ask as “aks,” as in “I’ll go aks the teacher.” Are criticisms of this form, which has been in variation throughout the history of English (in the Middle
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“There aren’t many ways to find comfort in this world. We must take it where we can get it, even in the darkest, most disgusting places. Nobody asks to be born. No one signs a form that says, You have my permission to make me exist. Babies are born, because parents feel that they themselves are not enough. So, parents, never condemn us for trying to fill our existential holes, when we are but the fruit of your own vain attempts to fill yours. It’s your fault we’re here to deal with the void in the first place.”
― So Sad Today: Personal Essays
― So Sad Today: Personal Essays
“ميا تعتبر الصمت أعظم شيء يمكن للإنسان عمله، حين تصمت تستمع بشكل جيّد للآخرين وحين تملّ من كلامهم تستمع لنفسها في الصمت، لا تقول شيئًا فلا يؤذيها شيء، في أحيان كثيرة ليس لديها ما تقوله، وفي أحيان أخرى تعرف أنّها لا تريد أن تقول وحسب.”
― Celestial Bodies
― Celestial Bodies
“ماتت دون أن يشعر بها أحد، ماتت كل يوم وكل ليلة، عشر سنوات تتنفس وتأكل وتشرب وهي ميتة، تكلم الناس وتمشي بينهم وهي ميتة، حتى أسلم جسدها روحه الميتة أخيرًا وكف عن التظاهر بالحياة.”
― Celestial Bodies
― Celestial Bodies
“They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.”
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“Sometimes I felt like the dust. Relentlessly banging my head against the walls, never getting anywhere. Always ending up in a pile somewhere, never in a corner though. There are no corners in a round world. Sleeting across the path, searching, settling for a second then pushed along, again and again.”
― The Woodlands
― The Woodlands
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