JH X JS [Part 1 Of 4]

JH x JS [Part 1 of 4]

“How come you’re so calm?” “I am extremely shocked and nervous right now.”

Alice Te Punga Somerville, Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised - Kupu rere kē

[ID: A poem titled: Kupu rere kē. [in italics] My friend was advised to italicise all the foreign words in her poems. This advice came from a well-meaning woman with NZ poetry on her business card and an English accent in her mouth. I have been thinking about this advice. The convention of italicising words from other languages clarifies that some words are imported: it ensures readers can tell the difference between a foreign language and the language of home. I have been thinking about this advice. Marking the foreign words is also a kindness: every potential reader is reassured that although you’re expected to understand the rest of the text, it’s fine to consult a dictionary or native speaker for help with the italics. I have been thinking about this advice. Because I am a contrary person, at first I was outraged — but after a while I could see she had a point: when the foreign words are camouflaged in plain type you can forget how they came to be there, out of place, in the first place. I have been thinking about this advice and I have decided to follow it. Now all of my readers will be able to remember which words truly belong in -[end italics]- Aotearoa -[italics]- and which do not.

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HOPE YOU’RE WELL. PLEASE DON’T READ THIS.

im like an annoying wine connoisseur but about tapwater. goes to your house and swirls your tapwater around in a glass before sipping it. hm. interesting. quite sweet notes of iron, but i’ve had better.

do you ever just lay there listening to music on your headphones and you can hear every drumroll and every awesome bassline and the piano in the background and the wailing guitars and all the little details you never noticed before and you get so lost in it the next time you look up it's three in the morning