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Old 24-01-2019, 11:55 PM
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silv (Annette)
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My meandering thoughts and long posts have a bit to do with still living in two languages. On many days it seems, I can only express with a reduced vocabulary in either language, German, my native one, or English. Like having a bad hair day - but in regards to active vocabulary.
That's when thoughts don't form in words but in something like blurry images seen through a gel pad, just out of reach.
On bad language days I can't switch off and wait for better times.
On other days, when vocabulary depth is available, thoughts appear as the precise chain of words. That's when I can think what I want to think - and am not reduced to think what I can think. Sort of. -ish.
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