Tag: exophony
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Bülbül, or what happened in Nightingale Street?
Ekzofonik sözlüğüme hoş geldiniz! Yeni bir yazı okumak üzeresiniz. Bülbül. Luscinia megarhynchos, from the nightingale family, known for the beauty of its voice. This word surprised me at first because I had heard it in Wolof as well. Then, when I started learning Turkish, I decided to write a short story about a nightingale that…
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I listened to Nizar Qabbani
A dose of my exophonic existence: WordPress suggests correcting the word “exophonic” to “monophonic”. I read this as yet another demand to simplify our existence and exclude the possibility of linguistic diversity as a norm. My original point was to tell you that I listened again to Nizar Qabbani and his poem Risaala taht al-ma’…
J.K. Pikkujämsä 