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THE BATTLE FOR MODeRN 1923


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big words: beyond mirriam, webster

Y’all.

So I wrote this work­shop over the past few days based on this feel­ing that we don’t have big enough words.

I want­ed to en­cour­age the kids to make their own words when we didn’t give them big enough ones to de­scribe life.

We learned about who Mer­ri­am and Web­ster were and what et­y­mol­o­gy is, how words come to be from dif­fer­ent lan­guages, that we should al­ways re­spect peo­ple who are learn­ing Eng­lish cause they have more words than us, ono­matopoeias, and then we made a bunch of new words with new de­f­i­n­i­tions, and then we did some deep breath­ing be­cause that’s how you al­low the words to come to you.

Some­thing we talked about to­day was that the Greeks have sev­en dif­fer­ent words for love. And Mer­ri­am and Web­ster were white Eu­ro­peans who only used Latin and Eu­ro­pean roots for their words.

I have not felt this lev­el of joy and align­ment with my high­est pur­pose in months.

The kids are al­right. In fact they bet­ter than we are.

Thank you 916 Ink. 💜

Also. None of them knew what a Lau­re­ate was so I told them it meant that I can stack marsh­mal­lows high­er than any oth­er poet in the city.

Hit me if you wan­na book me to teach marsh­mal­low stack­ing to your class or group.

 

—an­dru defeye

Flom­mist An­dru De­f­eye is the Guer­ril­la Poet Lau­re­ate of Sacra­men­to. Copy­right © 2020 An­dru Defeye.

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