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I apologize in advance if the language below may be incomprehensible, but I don't have time to simplify my writing to the level of a first-grader, or to organize my text to reach as wide a reading audience as possible. I also apologize as I don't know how to write for "the illiterate".

Apparently, you've never heard of ethical behavior. I asked you a simple question, which you obviously did not understand, and to which a simple NO would have sufficed. No need to expose a message I sent you in private. I may be naive, but not stupid.

I was in charge of a translation project: translating the story of an Amerindian boy trying to find his "inner voice". The author, used what is called an "Indian tone", which you obviously know nothing about . I personally don't like the term, but don't have much of an option. I don't like any of the collective words to refer to the many people who the Europeans met when they arrived on the "American" continent.

Just to illustrate what I meant by an Indian tone: Although U.S. Citizens anglophones(what some chose to call "Americans", "North Americans", etc.) and Canadians (who are also North Americans) are different nations, they share what is called a "North American tone", which is very different from what is called a British Tone, and all "Earthlins" share one tone, as we all speak languages based on the human phonological system. Apparently, to an alien arriving on this planet, human languages would sound all very similar. I am obviously aware of all the different "Native American" nations and would never regard them as one, just as I do not regard all of Asians as one people, simply because I can hear the "connective tissue" between Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Thai, although I speak Japanese which is very different from those languages. The same holds true for the Amerindian language families: Ojibwe (Ojibway, Anishinaabemowin, Chippewa, Ojibwa), Algonquin (Algonkin, Anishnabe, Anishinabe, Anishnabeg), and Cree (Western/Plains Cree, Northern/Woodlands Cree, Central/Swampy Cree, Moose Cree, and Eastern Cree), to name a few.

As a translator, it is my job to reproduce, as loyally as possible, the author's voice. I finally found someone with an Amerindian background who was smart enough to get my point and who was happy to help me with the challenging job, which was to produce a text that would not sound patronizing. My project won exactly because it made an honest effort to incorporate as many different Amerindian tonal aspects from one linguistic family as possible. It departed from a simple theory (which I won't bore you with). It was far from perfect. But most other projects simply translated from a "white man's/European" perspective, and the ones that tried to do the same thing I did assumed too much about the different Amerindian languages.

BTW: Portuguese is my mother tongue, but I also speak, read and write English, French, German, Spanish. Only understand: Japanese and Guarany

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yo there's this mexican joint close to sidneys, cross the street from mnwka...fucking dope. cheap too. mad grimy though...don't even have a kitchen, it's just one room with tables and they're in the corner making the food.

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as said earlier: I couldn't be white even if I took a whole bottle of whatever it is Michael Jackson took, or even if my whole body were covere with vitiligo:)

u think this shit is funny?

go 2 hell.

y do ppl think vitiligo is a joke? do u thnk blk ppl dont rly get it? IS IT FUNNY 2 U???

FUK OFF

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u think this shit is funny?

go 2 hell.

y do ppl think vitiligo is a joke? do u thnk blk ppl dont rly get it? IS IT FUNNY 2 U???

FUK OFF

What I meant was "Being black or white is not necessarily just in the color of your skin." Whatever happens to the color of my skin won't change my backround.

It is obvious black people get vitiligo. I have already seen quite a few who had it in my town, and it's not such a big town.

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