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  • Hand-colored historical engraving of a European colonial waterfront, depicting an 18th-century port city. A broad river or harbor curves through the center, with a large sailing ship flying red pennants anchored at right. In the foreground, workers unload barrels and crates from wooden boats while several figures in brightly colored coats converse along the shoreline. Across the water stands a dense cluster of pastel-colored buildings dominated by a large domed cathedral and a tall stone tower, with additional church spires rising behind them. The sky is pale blue with soft pink clouds, giving the scene a calm, idealized atmosphere.

    On n'a pas la langue dans notre poche!

    · #personal essay #Language Learning #Linguistics #Métis #History #Social Commentary

    Cet article de blogue est écrit en français. This blog post is written in French. Sur les différences entre le français québécois et le français européen, l'histoire linguistique du Québec depuis 1763, les sacres québécois comme acte de rébellion contre l'Église catholique, et le michif, la langue mixte des Métis avec ses verbes cris et noms français, son ethnogenèse au 19e siècle, et son statut de langue en danger avec moins de 1 000 locuteurs.

  • Oil painting of a vanitas still life: a human skull resting on an open book with blue-edged pages, set against a dark background. To the left, pink roses in a glass vase; to the right, a bouquet of colorful flowers with a small paper scroll bearing handwritten text. An hourglass sits on the book's edge in the lower right, and a dark, curved snuffed candle rests near the flowers.

    You Must, You Must, You Must

    · #philosophy #death #Stoicism #linguistics #personal essay

    I've been sitting with a single word change. 'Will' versus 'must' in the Latin phrase Memento Mori, and it's shifted everything for me. A meditation on mortality as obligation rather than fate, and what it means to truly reckon with the fact that we must die, and therefore we must live and love.

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