Thank you for so generously sharing the beautiful clutter. I am a little reassured about our shared space.💕
A language-loving aside follows:
If this had been in Indonesian, there would have been no ambiguity about whether I meant a space that you and I share, or a space that I share with another (I meant the latter). This is because, like some other languages, Indonesian has different we/us/our (second person plural) pronouns, depending on whether the speaker is including the person being addressed (or the reader), or not.
This is a great example to use as a gentle challenge to someone raving about how English is so superior in its specificity. 🙂
It occurs to me that snails, although they carry their house on their back, still have specific adaptations for their type and general location. ( Are there snail sub-species, or are they distinct species? Must go find out.)
Thank you Wake, for widening our love and appreciation for both snails, and still-workable piles of stuff. 💕
Your comment leaves me with no adequate words, hilarious, me being a writer.
But more of this gesture. My hand went to rest over my heart, and I sort of…telepathically sent you hugs.
I was just talking about how difficult English is, just today, and how it doesn’t do everything I want it to. That having multiple languages in my head…sometimes French does the thing I want…or that my gender is best described by a word in Cree.
I am so grateful to live in a world that is multilingual. Multicultural. How lucky I feel to exist in a time where I get to communicate with people across the earth.
Brilliant! Multilingual and multicultural for expansiveness!
Sometimes another language just does it better.
“Dulu” in Indonesian: it means “first” in a sense of “beforehand”, that is, doing one thing before doing something else, but it has a cultural nuance to it as well, of an appropriate order in which to do things, and it drops naturally into conversations, in an “I’m just gonna do this first” kind of way… all with one word…
I’m giving you a hug dulu, as I’m gonna sign off…Stuff to do, but a bit of fun dulu… ~~~~ - Or “ada”; it emphasises the existence or is-ness of a thing more than “there is/are” in English does…
Oh what fun…
really gotta go do outside things (oh must empty dishwasher dulu)…
Thank you for so generously sharing the beautiful clutter. I am a little reassured about our shared space.💕
A language-loving aside follows:
If this had been in Indonesian, there would have been no ambiguity about whether I meant a space that you and I share, or a space that I share with another (I meant the latter). This is because, like some other languages, Indonesian has different we/us/our (second person plural) pronouns, depending on whether the speaker is including the person being addressed (or the reader), or not.
This is a great example to use as a gentle challenge to someone raving about how English is so superior in its specificity. 🙂
It occurs to me that snails, although they carry their house on their back, still have specific adaptations for their type and general location. ( Are there snail sub-species, or are they distinct species? Must go find out.)
Thank you Wake, for widening our love and appreciation for both snails, and still-workable piles of stuff. 💕
Your comment leaves me with no adequate words, hilarious, me being a writer.
But more of this gesture. My hand went to rest over my heart, and I sort of…telepathically sent you hugs.
I was just talking about how difficult English is, just today, and how it doesn’t do everything I want it to. That having multiple languages in my head…sometimes French does the thing I want…or that my gender is best described by a word in Cree.
I am so grateful to live in a world that is multilingual. Multicultural. How lucky I feel to exist in a time where I get to communicate with people across the earth.
Brilliant! Multilingual and multicultural for expansiveness!
Sometimes another language just does it better.
“Dulu” in Indonesian: it means “first” in a sense of “beforehand”, that is, doing one thing before doing something else, but it has a cultural nuance to it as well, of an appropriate order in which to do things, and it drops naturally into conversations, in an “I’m just gonna do this first” kind of way… all with one word…
I’m giving you a hug dulu, as I’m gonna sign off…Stuff to do, but a bit of fun dulu… ~~~~ - Or “ada”; it emphasises the existence or is-ness of a thing more than “there is/are” in English does…
Oh what fun…
really gotta go do outside things (oh must empty dishwasher dulu)…
thank you for the lovely smile today :)