Meraki Love Letters to Language【電子書籍】[ Elise Maren ]

＜p＞English stinks. I love to write in English mostly because it stinks. Bullying English by exploiting its grammar, homonyms, and numerous other peculiarities can make for amusing poetry. However, I find the language to have one unforgivable flaw: there is only one word for the notion of love. While Sanskrit boasts 96 words for love, we use one measly, catch-all term to describe feelings towards coffee, family, partners, and strangers alike.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When I was trying to come up with a way to categorize poems written from age fifteen to the present, the only thing I could come up with was to organize themes in terms of what type of love they convey. The Greek language facilitated this, and a book with Greek chapters needs a Greek title. From there, ＜em＞Meraki: Love Letters to Language＜/em＞ was born. The title came quite naturally, as I have poured much of myself into this work. The subject sections include self-love, fondness, flirtation, desire, enduring love, familial love, love for hu．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る