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Going Native: Chapter 10

Going Native: Chapter 10

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Alex Johnson
Apr 20, 2023
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Previously: Going Native, Chapter 9: What doesn’t kill me, makes me fatter
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The language spoken by the tribes of the Limbo

Has many words far subtler than our own.

To indicate how much, how little, something

Is pretty closely or not quite the case

But none you could translate by Yes or No

Nor do it…

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