#anyway that post of language-related poetry i rbed a bit ago made me think abt this | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

haunthouse · 2 years ago

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i don't know a ton about my family history but the last couple times i've seen my family they've mentioned offhand the fact that my great grandpa was a communist and was passionate about preserving yiddish literature and that if he was still alive i'd have great conversations with him about the horrors of capitalism and could practice my yiddish with him. and it's so weird to be told you're similar to someone you only met once when you were like 6 years old and will never have the option of meeting again

#kaylee.txt #nobody in my family since him has spoken yiddish until me (trying very hard to learn it via duolingo)#i thought my grandpa did but apparently he just took german classes in school to figure out what his parents were saying in yiddish lmao #which was disappointing to learn bc i rly wanted to have someone irl i could practice with #anyway that post of language-related poetry i rbed a bit ago made me think abt this #but it didnt feel relevant enough to put in the tags of that rb #bc i know it isnt the same feeling as people whos first language is something other than english #or people who have close family members that speak something else and not just great grandparents #but the like. wanting to feel Part Of A Community via language/history/etc that u dont have access to. is such an emotion #anyways. gonna go outside and get a coffee and be normal now

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