Nanette Tamer

Professor Emerita, Linguistics and Comparative Literature

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@AaronDChandler Aaron, grieving with you who you may be grieving

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@christiwhittem @TheRegencyCook So lovely! Beautiful how the line “Now the late sun…” stretches out the action until “Slowly…”

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@christiwhittem There was a commercial showing someone throwing litter out of a car which landed near a Native American who then had a tear running down his face. Probably 1970s. A govt agency commercial. A trash problem then, but not all these plastics, esp forever plastics

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@christiwhittem That’s wonderful!

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@AaronDChandler @maggiewestrum Thank you, Aaron. A serendipitous appearance of just the poem we needed at the time we needed it. I wish I had written it, though.

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@Andrea_Migone @PaleBlueMomma @JoyceCarolOates @bdk1521 I mean the complaining itself, not what the complaint is about.

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@Andrea_Migone @PaleBlueMomma @JoyceCarolOates @bdk1521 I think complaining has become more usual. Children are expected to identify and express their emotions all the time.

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@abenanav The legislature of the state of North Carolina just voted for a maximum income tax of 3.5% for everyone. We are going backwards.

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@AaronDChandler @maggiewestrum From “Approaching Sundown” by Jorie Graham in the New Yorker on Jan. 12:

“It is possible consciousness dis-

appears from the atmosphere
taking with it the crazed
minutes
running towards the end”
…
“That anything that occurred before is
erased. Do not
forget this”

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@Patty_Cakes_xx @HJoyceGender “I don’t got” is only an Americanism in the rural South, and maybe a few places I don’t know about. As an American, I would stare in horror at my children or students if they said such a thing. Perhaps she jests?

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@christiwhittem I’ll meet you there! Near Cocoa Beach, straight across Florida from our beloved Sarasota!

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@christiwhittem Author of optimistic novels about the struggles to preserve the natural world by surprising and healthily drawn characteristics

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@Joseph_Fasano_ I’m here and I’m grateful for you 💕

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@raybould_drs @TopTweetTuesday Oh how much I feel this! Even moreso now watching my grandchildren play, as they so easily shift together from one pretend imaginary scene to another! “Now let’s be…” one will say. Thank you so much for including your passionate speaking of it!

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@raf_walk 👍🏻

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@costan07 @TopTweetTuesday Yesterday I heard a European journalist aptly describe the Trump administration’s actions toward other nations as though they are playing a video game, without any actual understanding or engagement with what they are doing. (I’m sorry I forgot his name and can’t find it on npr.)

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@Joseph_Fasano_ Actions speak louder than jewelry.

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@christiwhittem 30,000, unthinkable!

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@craigh_ @Joseph_Fasano_ Yes, it is misinformation because that is all that they have. They only can see what they want to see and hence create. They are unable to see the reality, the reality we are living in and the opposite reality that we want.