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Universal Grammar

Parsing—the exercise of telling the part of speech of each word in a sen-


tence (Latin, pars, a part)

the—distinguishing adjective, limiting the noun, cell.

smallest—adjective of quantity, superlative degree, qualifying the noun,


cell (unsuccessfully).

cell—common noun, neuter gender, singular number, third person,


nominative case governing the intransitive verb, remembers. (Long-
term memory improves cell growth in nerve cells.)

remembers—regular verb, transitive, active voice, indicative mood, pres-


ent tense, singular number, third person agreeing with its nominative,
cell which remembers and so re-members.

O—sound of exclamation as in O God! Made by rounding the lips; rst


syllable of word name of African goddess of the river—O/shun.

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Man
Man is
The tall man is
The tall, blond man is
The tall, blond, blue-eyed man is
The tall, blond, blue-eyed, white-skinned man is

       


    :     
 ;     ;   
;     ;  -
     ;   
     ,  
 ,     

The tall, blond, blue-eyed, white-skinned man is shooting

the smallest cell


remembers
a sound
(sliding two semitones to return
home)
a secret order
among syllables
Leg/ba
O/shun
Shan/go
heart races
blood pounds
remembers
speech

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fragments—common noun, neuter gender, plural number, third person
object of verb remembers. Re-membered fragments become whole.

tremble—regular verb, instransitive, used as a noun, lacking all attributes of


the noun but movement. Only verbs have movement.

ex—prex signifying in English and Latin ‘out’ or ‘forth’ as in exodus—the


departure of the Israelites from the black land, Egypt; ‘to remove’, ‘expel’ or
‘drive out’ as in exorcize by use of a holy name like Legba, Oshun or Shango.

man—common noun, male gender, singular number, third person,


nominative case governing the verb, is. And woman.

again—adverb used incorrectly as a noun modifying the transitive verb,


forget, used incorrectly as a noun.

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fragments
brief
as Sappho’s
tremble of tongue on the brink of
ex/
(when the passage of sound is completely
blocked a consonant is called)
plosive
tongue on the brink of
ex/
(prex—occurring only before vowels)
odus
orcize
on the brink of
ex/
(to strip or peel o (the skin) 1547)
coriate

The tall, blond, blue-eyed, white-skinned man is shooting

tongue trembles
on the again and again
of forget

       


     —   
         
 .     -
   ,  ,  ;
        
   .

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Parsing—the exercise of dis-membering language into fragmentary
cells that forget to re-member.

raped—regular, active, used transitively the again and again against


women participled into the passive voice as in, ‘to get raped’; past
present future—tense(d) against the singular or plural number of the
unnamed subject, man

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when the smallest cell remembers—
how do you
how can you
when the smallest cell
remembers
lose a language

O homem alto, louro de olhos azuis esta a disparar


El blanco, rubio, alto de ojos azules está disparando
De lange, blanke, blonde man, met der blauwe ogen, is aan het schieten
Le grand homme blanc et blond aux yeux bleus tire sur
Der grosser weisse mann, blonde mit bleuen augen hat geschossen
The tall, blond, blue-eyed, white-skinned man is shooting
an elephant
a native
a wild animal
a Black
a woman
a child
somewhere

Slip mouth over the syllable; moisten with tongue the word.
Suck Slide Play Caress Blow—Love it, but if the word
gags, does not nourish, bite it o—at its source—
Spit it out
Start again

From Mother’s Recipes on How to Make a Language Yours or


How Not to Get Raped.

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