{"id":231,"date":"2015-06-12T19:36:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T16:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liipetti.net\/aviisi\/?p=231"},"modified":"2015-06-12T19:38:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T16:38:43","slug":"my-language-is-my-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liipetti.net\/aviisi\/2015\/06\/12\/my-language-is-my-world\/","title":{"rendered":"My language is my world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My language is my world<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bengt Pohjanen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My language is my world,<br \/>\nweekdays and weekdays,<br \/>\nmy language is Me\u00e4nkieli.<\/p>\n<p>When I speak it,<br \/>\na ladder is raised up toward<br \/>\nthe black sky of its enemies.<\/p>\n<p>When I sing in\u00a0it,<br \/>\nthe wall clocks come to stop<br \/>\nin the gala halls of the monolinguals.<\/p>\n<p>When I write in it,<br \/>\nsnow falls<br \/>\nfrom the branches in snowy forests.<\/p>\n<p>And when I speak,<br \/>\nthe governor trembles,<br \/>\nwhen I curse, even the bishop crosses his arms.<\/p>\n<p>When I take an oath,<br \/>\nthe judge lowers his head.<\/p>\n<p>When I cast a spell,<br \/>\nblood stoops like the walls of the Red Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever disputes my language,<br \/>\ndisputes my world,<br \/>\nwhoever disputes my world,<br \/>\ndenies my existence,<br \/>\nwhoever laughs at my language,<br \/>\nlaughs at my life,<br \/>\nwhoever mocks my language<br \/>\nis treading on sacred rag rugs.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever wishes my language were dead<br \/>\nis hoping for my Grim Reaper.<\/p>\n<p>The enemies of little languages h<br \/>\nave been written<br \/>\non all horizons.<\/p>\n<p>My language complains:<br \/>\nwhy are you looking past me<br \/>\neven though the borders are clear?<\/p>\n<p>Look in the eye, you sun-blinded people!<\/p>\n<p><em>Literal English translation<\/em>: Jack Rueter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My language is my world Bengt Pohjanen My language is my world, weekdays and weekdays, my language is Me\u00e4nkieli. When I speak it, a ladder is raised up toward the black sky of its enemies. When I sing in\u00a0it, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/liipetti.net\/aviisi\/2015\/06\/12\/my-language-is-my-world\/\">Lue loppuun <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meankieli-poems-in-translation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liipetti.net\/aviisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liipetti.net\/aviisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liipetti.net\/aviisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liipetti.net\/aviisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liipetti.net\/aviisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/liipetti.net\/aviisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/liipetti.net\/aviisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liipetti.net\/aviisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liipetti.net\/aviisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liipetti.net\/aviisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}