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And the pearls of our eyes are turning black
My poem "Telegony" has been accepted by Cabinet des Fées.
It is strange and sad enough that a language, like a species, can be made extinct in less than two hundred years. (Sometimes a generation is all it takes.) This sentence struck me as strangest and saddest of all: "Though the language has been closely studied by researchers of linguistic history, Boa Sr spent the last few years of her life unable to converse with anyone in her mother tongue."
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ron_drummond, I'm listening to this piece a lot.
It is strange and sad enough that a language, like a species, can be made extinct in less than two hundred years. (Sometimes a generation is all it takes.) This sentence struck me as strangest and saddest of all: "Though the language has been closely studied by researchers of linguistic history, Boa Sr spent the last few years of her life unable to converse with anyone in her mother tongue."
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ron_drummond, I'm listening to this piece a lot.
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And, regarding the lost language and the last speaker of it, very sad indeed.
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Thank you! Awesome.
And, regarding the lost language and the last speaker of it, very sad indeed.
I was reading a very similar article two years ago. It didn't make me happy then, either.