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Triolet: Words that Cut

Your dull knives are now razor-sharp You slash and slice without mercy! slitting wide inked letters 'cross my tent's tough leather tarp Your dull knives are now razor-sharp slipping through hearts still throbbing music by the angel's harp of Death, you dealt then thou-sand cuts on me; Your dull knives are now razor-sharp You slash and slice without mercy! Your dull knives are now razor-sharp You slash and slice without mercy! slitting wide, inked letters 'cross my tent's tough leather tarp Your dull knives are now razor-sharp slipping through hearts still throbbing, music by the angel's harp of Death, you dealt then thou-sand cuts on me; Your dull knives are now razor-sharp You slash and slice without mercy! Your dull knives are now razor- sharp You slash and slice without mer cy ! slitting wide inked letters, 'cross my tent's tough leather tarp Your dull knives are now razor- sharp slipping through hearts, still throbbing, music by the angel's ...

Language, COntact, and Colonialism

  Colonialism= point of contact. VARIETIES OF ENGLISH trauma from post-colonialism in outer-circle countries, whereas expanding circles use English EFL as a largely transactional language, usually without controversies or traumas experienced by outer circles ESL. Criticism: conceal the fact that people in the outer circle can also be in the inner circle? Not bound by country borders. Challenges the idea that only people in the inner circle can speak English as a native language. SCHNEIDER'S DYNAMIC MODEL mainly derived from the ripples in politics over time. varieties of language codified and stabilised. how east Malaysians strongly adhere to English, don't really have Malays in contrast to indigenous tribes, wouldn't be fair to impose Malay as a mother tongue, when it isn't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gehs26G1Eoo

Manglish and its Cina Particles

"The ubiquitous word lah ( [lɑ́]   or   [lɑ̂] ), used at the end of a sentence, can also be described as a particle that simultaneously asserts a position and entices solidarity.  Note that 'lah' is often written after a space for clarity, but there is never a pause before it. This is because originally in Malay, 'lah' is appended to the end of the word and is not a separate word by itself." SNEAKING SUSPICION: "lah" was originally from the Cantonese practicing south of China. The land of Malaya had relations with China since the Ming dynasty, when China was the protector of the Malaccan Sultanate (maybe even from the 5th-6th century), and the use of la as a sentence-suffix particle got integrated into the Malay language its formation, probably during the second phase is Early Modern Malay (1500-ca. 1850) that witnessed the indigenization of Arabic loan words, changes in the affix system, and a rather liberal word order.  Confirmation alternatives: ...