Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language by Abdelfattah Kilito

Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language

Abdelfattah Kilito with Waïl S. Hassan (Translator)

128 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy reflective medium-paced
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It has been said that the difference between and language and a dialect is that a language is a dialect with an army. Both the act of translation and bilingualism are steeped in a tension between surrender and conquest, yielding conscious and unco...

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