It's humiliating to speak only in code, only in a punished, subaltern idiom; but it's humiliating to stand outside that vernacular, too, and not comprehend it, and feel its disrespect.
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15.8.12
On the Double Humiliation of Standing Inside and Outside of the Vernacular
Labels:
abuse,
Books & Literature,
humiliation,
language,
quotations,
shame,
vernacular
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