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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