The Turkic-speaking peoples really struggle with the Western, heavily Anglocentric order of the 21st century. It’s most certainly not a cultural clash, but rather an unfortunate, tragic linguistic one. Agreeable Turkic peoples live behind a haze of perturbation due to certain linguistic contrasts and incompatibilities between their languages and those which dominate in the West.Continue reading “Saving Turkicity”
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“ I said, let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler: but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope. ” – George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, 1876 🇬🇧 soul Etymology: of Germanic origin. OldContinue reading “🕯”
The Petrarchan way
Francesco Petrarca was an Italian scholar and poet of early Renaissance Italy. His name is often anglicised as Petrarch. He is credited as having founded the 14th-century Italian Renaissance / il Rinascimento (“Re-birth”), a movement of medieval Europe centred in Italy and focused on reimagining and levelling up from the feats of classical antiquity, withContinue reading “The Petrarchan way”
Poetry beyond philosophy …
Au-delà de la philosophie: les visions de Jacques Prévert… Plus tard ce sera trop tard. Notre vie est maintenant. Later will be too late. Our life is now. Jacques Prévert (1900-77), French poet and screenwriter Avec lui, nous sommes dans un domaine où les mots et les yeux s’unissent…! With him, we are in aContinue reading “Poetry beyond philosophy …”
El Instante
🔲 Dónde estarán los siglos, dónde el sueñode espadas que los tártaros soñaron,dónde los fuertes muros que allanaron,dónde el Árbol de Adán y el otro Leño?El presente está solo. La memoriaerige el tiempo. Sucesión y engañoes la rutina del reloj. El añono es menos vano que la vana historia.Entre el alba y la noche hayContinue reading “El Instante”
Seeing Chagallique
#PerspectivesOfTheWorld Je préfère la perspective Chagallique 🌬💗 I prefer the Chagallic perspective. 🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀 “Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.”
The world’s first war…
… was fought around 40,000 years ago within the Pre-Nostratic population shortly before we left Africa, the descendants of whom speak the languages of the Nostratic primary language family I have proposed … War is something you give in to. Martial inclination feels like filling a gap, but the perceived gap is an illusion createdContinue reading “The world’s first war…”
Away with the souls of the forest 💚✨
“A different language is a different vision of life.” Federico Fellini Sample: टिक सवट्टै नु प्रतिष्ठा कफेरा अधिकार ककेजे जिबेजी अगन्जी । गिना ग्याओ चिय कफेरा मागभया नाङ्टे अङी । ••• ṭik sawaṭṭe nu pratiṣṭhā kapherā adhikār kakeje jibejī aganjī. ginā gyāo ciy kapherā māgbhayā nāṅ’ṭe aṅī. ••• All human beings are born free andContinue reading “Away with the souls of the forest 💚✨”
The Amerindian languages
I propose the existence of a universal Amerindian language family, encompassing all the indigenous languages of the Americas, and some small groups in Siberia. They are the “Boundless” Tongues, linked by adherence to the Buzz-Concept infinity and its variants (such as omnipotence), and to the realm of “Orientalescence”, belonging to the wider primary language familyContinue reading “The Amerindian languages”
@Les Révolutions de Voltaire~
Il faut cultiver notre jardin. It is up to us to cultivate our garden. Voltaire (1694-1778) So goes the concluding quote of Voltaire’s most prominent work Candide, ou l’Optimisme (1759), a novella which satirically comments on events, thinkers and philosophies of his time. Born François-Marie Arouet in Paris in 1694, his œuvre flavoured the eveContinue reading “@Les Révolutions de Voltaire~”