2015.11.24_2 By Sasisage
2015.11.24_2 by sasisage
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When I was beginning to discover languages, I had a romanticized view of words like “speak” and “fluency”. But then I realized that you can be nominally fluent in a language and still struggle to understand parts of it. English is my first language, but what I really spoke was a hybrid of teenage slang and Manhattan-ese. When I listen to my father, a lawyer, talk to other lawyers, his words sound as foreign to me as Finnish. I certainly couldn’t read Shakespeare without a dictionary, and I’d be equally helpless in a room with Jamaicans or Cajuns. Yet all of us “speak English.” My linguistics teacher, a native of Poland, speaks better English than I do and seems right at home peppering his speech with terms like “epenthetic schwa” and “voiceless alveolar stops”. Yet the other day, it came up that he’d never heard the word “tethered”. Does that mean he doesn’t “speak” English? If the standard of speaking a language is to know every word — to feel equally at home debating nuclear fission and classical music — then hardly anyone is fluent in their own native tongues.
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Neelam Gill - Glamour UK November 2015
photos Pawel Psyz stylist Alessandra Steinherr hair Lyndell Mansfield makeup Polly Osmond
Why do artists refuse to use references why why why.
It’s not a contest to see who can get by without them. It’s not cheating to look at a thing in order to know what the thing looks like.
You don’t get stronger or better by pretending. Nobody is impressed by the awkward whatever-it-is you just drew. Use references.
Spangolite
Locality:
Mex-Tex Mine, Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro Co., New Mexico, USA
Blue green transparent bipyramidal Spangolite crystals.
Collection and photo Stephan Wolfsried
Soft sculpture by UniversesSwirls on Etsy
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