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the way victorie and robin and ramy all loose their birth languages has me in shambles. victorie never really spoke hatian creole, she moved to france at a very young age, and when she tried to bring it into babel, she was dismissed. ramy, who’s from kolkata, who’s bengali, only speaks bengali once in the book and his speech has become rudimentary because the british saw urdu and sanskrit and arabic as more valuable. robin has forgotten cantonese by the time he goes back home for the same reason. it’s utterly tragic it comes with a deep pain that’s hard to describe the pain of loosing your mother tongue.
Screaming crying throwing.
How was this book so fucking good.
ramiz rafi mirza from rf kuang's Babel
"This is how colonialism works. It convinces us that the fallout from resistance is entirely our fault, that the immoral choice is resistance itself rather than the circumstances which demanded it."
- R.F Kuang, Babel

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“That year, using English as an example, they began the task of studying how languages grew, changed, morphed, multiplied, diverged, and converged. They studied sound changes; why the English knee had a silent k that was pronounced in the German counterpart; why the stop consonants of Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit had such a regular correspondence with consonants in Germanic languages. They read Bopp, Grimm, and Rask in translation; they read the Etymologiae of Isidorus. They studied semantic shifts, syntactical change, dialectical divergence, and borrowing, as well as the reconstructive methods one might use to piece together the relationships between languages that at first glance seemed to have nothing to do with each other. They dug through languages like they were mines, searching for valuable veins of common heritage and distorted meaning.
It changed the way they spoke. Constantly they trailed off in the middle of sentences. They could not utter even common phrases and aphorisms without pausing to wonder where those words came from. Such interrogations infiltrated all their conversations, became the default way they made sense of each other and everything else. They could no longer look at the world and not see stories, histories, layered everywhere like centuries’ worth of sediment.
And the influences on English were so much deeper and more diverse than they thought. Chit came from the Marathi chitti, meaning ‘letter’ or ‘note’. Coffee had made its way into English by way of Dutch (koffie), Turkish (kahveh), and originally Arabic (qahwah). Tabby cats were named after a striped silk that was in turn named for its place of origin: a quarter of Baghdad named al-‘Attābiyya. Even basic words for clothes all came from somewhere. Damask came from cloth made in Damascus; gingham came from the Malay word genggang, meaning ‘striped’; calico referred to Calicut in Kerala, and taffeta, Ramy told them, had its roots in the Persian word tafte, meaning ‘a shiny cloth’. But not all English words had their roots in such far-flung or noble origins. The curious thing about etymology, they soon learned, was that anything could influence a language, from the consumption habits of the rich and worldly to the so-called vulgar utterances of the poor and wretched. The lowly cants, the supposed secret languages of thieves, vagabonds, and foreigners, had contributed such common words such as bilk, booty, and bauble.
English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.”
— RF Kuang, Babel
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little birdie, robin swift
little birdie, robin swift
The way that language was portrayed and used in this book was just so fucking good, like I have absolutely no words to describe how fucking good the system of languages being resources for colonialism for further exploit was just so well done. The fact that we see Robin go from who he was in the beginning to what he became, it was all so fucking well done I am like speechless l.
I wanna fucking cry over how beautiful this book was

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I heard there was a special place
Like L’Manburg itself, I rise a second time… to present to you the color version of this comic. It was an experiment that nearly killed me o7 boys
Also people were confused a bit in tags last time: this comic butchered Jane Hirschfields beautiful poem bc I literally took stanzas out, lads. You should read the whole thing!
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"what a wonderful afternoon for a schoolmate reunion"
Listening to your friend explaining every little detail of Taylor Swift's career to distract you from your mental breakdown is just such a weird but soothing experience.

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I fear that I love too deeply for those who don’t love at all.
soft prompts for one-sided pining
staring at them for a long time
observing their little details
having their every little thing memorised
treasuring every little moment with them
and when your eyes meet it might be just a normal thing to them but to you it means the whole world
accidental touches that make your day
going out of your way to be near them
“hey, i didn’t know you’re into sports,” you friends say as you enrol your name in the sports club where you know he’s going to be there but you spend hours in room alone with no physical activity all day long
digging in their interests so that you have common topics to talk about
when you see something’s bothering them, secretly trying to make it solve
taking care of them in the shadows
knowing that they would never love you back and yet not stopping to pour out your love for them
because their smiles make your day