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Language Barriers
Exploring Creolite

Sounds, voices, languages are always inscribed in places

But the original, the thing itself, would never come back. It had passed away form the world. You could conjure it, though, the emotion that kept it alive inside you with a trigger: an image, a smell, a combination of sounds that stayed in your mind. That was the life of the thing after it died.
The only thing that would bring it back
This is what a word is worth.

Creole languages are not a recent phenomena. These, ‘Contact Languages' , can be understood as, "improvised languages that develop among speakers of different native languages who need to communicate with one another consistently, usually in the context of trade". As such they are formed at the borders of different modes of cultural/linguistic understanding to create a de-territorialized space; a no mans land of intercultural communication. In a recent essay citing Mary Louise Pratt, Irit Rogoff has deployed this......

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