my life suddenly．I found myself become an

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　　child in a family I was not born into; I found myself in a

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　　position that many native Americans find themselves in, living in a city that they do not understand at all, not in another culture but

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　　two cultures．

　　A teacher of the English language told me that meksikatsi was not called meksikatsi, even though that is what

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　　people have called that bird for thousands of years．Meksikatsi, he said, was really “duck”．I was very

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　　with English．I could not understand it．First of all, the bird did not look like “duck”, and when it made a

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　　, it did not sound like “duck”, I was even more

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　　when I found out that the meaning of the verb “to duck” came from the bird．

　　As I

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　　to understand English better, I understand that it made a great deal of

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　　, but I never forgot that meksikatsi made a different kind of meaning．I

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　　that languages are not just different words for the same things but totally different

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　　, totally different ways of experiencing and looking at the world．

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