{"id":306,"date":"2010-04-21T07:09:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T14:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/julijasukys.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2010-04-25T18:22:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T01:22:03","slug":"globe-and-mail-article-alphabet-fusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julijasukys.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Globe and Mail article: &#8220;Alphabet fusion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinnanya\/153339974\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/55\/153339974_545679f1ce_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A big theme in my work is multilingualism. I&#8217;m interested in how people live in several tongues simultaneously: authors who speak one language in daily life, but write in another; families who embrace members from all over the world; and how kids navigate polyglot waters.<\/p>\n<p>In large part my interest is biographical: I grew up bilingual (Lithuanian-English) and then continued to study other languages as an adult (French, Russian, German, Yiddish).<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m watching in fascination as my three-year-old son grows up in three languages. He makes up words, fuses languages and translates constantly. A few months ago, I started collecting his linguistic inventions for a kind of Sebastian lexicon. The exercise then grew into an essay on how we talk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/life\/facts-and-arguments\/alphabet-fusion\/article1541049\/\">You can read my article, &#8220;Alphabet fusion&#8221; that appeared in the Globe and Mail (April, 21, 2010) here. It&#8217;s about how the three members of my family communicate.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Photo uploaded by quinn.anya]<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/button100x23.png\" style=\"border:0px; width:100; height: 23; \" alt=\"Share Button\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Reddit\",\"Print\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Globe%20and%20Mail%20article%3A%20%22Alphabet%20fusion%22\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big theme in my work is multilingualism. I&#8217;m interested in how people live in several tongues simultaneously: authors who speak one language in daily life, but write in another; families who embrace members from all over the world; and how kids navigate polyglot waters. 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