The poetry of everyday language | Julián Delgado Lopera

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🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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In a captivating, poetic ode to the beauty and strength of mixed languages, writer Julián Delgado Lopera paints a picture of immigrant and queer communities united not by their refinement of language but by the creative inventions that spring from their mouths. They invite everyone to reconsider what "proper" English sounds like – and imagine a blended future where those on the margins are able to speak freely.

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0:13.3	Today, a way to expand our sense of the world through language.
0:18.1	In their 2019 talk from Ted X-Soma, Juliane Delgado-Lopera shares how language can be used
0:24.7	in quite divisive ways and what they want to see instead.
0:28.2	The possibility of using language for poetry and connection.
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