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Making some of the reclaimed pieces ... brighter and expressive in ways that EN does not well translate. The more I'm learning about the Mi'gmaq/Mi’kmaq language, the less (what I now recognize as colonized and Euro-centric English) descriptions of things make sense to me. To make sense of a lot of native words, need to remove all colonial context. Since there are a lot of inflated ways to say the same thing in the Queen's English, am really liking that our native words erase all of that.
#Decolonize #qmec #language #writing
https://intuitiveink.blogspot.com/2020/05/everything-too-radical-for-academia-and.html
@indie right there's so much more meaning and less ambiguity, it's incredible! the ease at which deceit is accommodated in english is equally resisted in many indigenous tongues.