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Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Posted
5:59 PM
by freelance radical
. ABOUT Yesterday, someone told me that he considered English to be the ugliest language in the universe. I knew that him saying that was only one more part of that really deplorable self-hate so many Americans seem to feel, these days, so I didn't argue. I just told him that I consider English to be the most beautiful language in the universe, and that I'd written 5 books in it. Much later, when I was half asleep, I thought about how amazing the English word HOME seemed to be. In most other languages, going "home" is expressed in words that mean going to back to a building. Like "naar huis"...... or, "zu hause"....... or, "a la maison"......or, "ha-baita". In English, however, you don't go back to your house. You go HOME. Even on a website, the entire world clicks on HOME. It doesn't mean house. It doesn't mean building. It's a term just for that one specific place where you belong. Where we all belong. You may think that's a small and insignificant matter, but it's not. When HOME is not a building but a concept to be treasured......the language that invented the word, is =======
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