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under the perfect shades, the world is mine

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its me and the pronoun 'you' in my writings against the rest of the world

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Some AAVE speakers pluralize 'child' as 'childrens'. People get racist about this ("It's already plural!"), but 'children' actually comes from Middle English speakers doing the same thing: slapping their plural marker on word already pluralized by an extinct plural marker.

To oversimplify: in Old English, 'childer' ('ċildra') was the plural of 'child' ('ċild'). Middle English developed an '-en' plural marker, which we see in 'oxen'. Instead of updating to 'childen', people slapped their preferred '-en' onto the end of 'childer' - so now we have 'child-er-en'. AAVE carries on this tradition with 'child-er-en-s'.

"Pure" language is just impurity obscured by the passage of time.

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Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

— James Baldwin, They Can’t Turn Back

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the double image, anne sexton from the complete poems written c. 1960

fleurentcue, On Sentimental Value and on How it brought me closer to my house

fleurentcue, On Sentimental Value and on How it brought me closer to my house

fleurentcue, On Sentimental Value and on How it brought me closer to my house

fleurentcue, On Sentimental Value and on How it brought me closer to my house

fleurentcue, On Sentimental Value and on How it brought me closer to my house

Fleurentcue, On Sentimental Value and on How it brought me closer to my house

Reflections on the film, and the blurry line of art between my life

Fleurentcue, On Sentimental Value and on How it brought me closer to my house

fleurentcue, On Sentimental Value and on How it brought me closer to my house

fleurentcue, On Sentimental Value and How it brought me closer to my house

D. H. Lawrence, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

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