‘N u there p?L yes b.N Working on this Diego thingL how is itN It’s making me think about my Kreol. Did I tell youhow I lost it?L I know you mourn itN It was the first language I knewL the first one you spoke?N y. the only one. Til I went to nursery school and no one understood me. They told my folks to speak English to me. So Kreol became language of adults/familial authorityL Didn’t youknow any kids whospoke it?N nope.N I never stopped understanding itN but the speaking seized upL Funny when you think how under colonialism, use of pidgins/creoles by colonised subjects = justification for colonials to infantilise them, while English = language of authority…L Have you read Moten’s ‘Blackness and Nothingness’?N No. Send!’ – from Enn Gramaten A cautionary tale of academic privilege and misadventure in Diego Garcia via a Kreole translation, and parallel live chat. Dialecty, conceived by Maria Fusco with The Common Guild, considers the uses of vernacular forms of speech and writing, exploring how dialect words, grammar and syntax challenge and improve traditional orthodoxies of critical writing. Publication in December 2018 at a launch event celebrating the Dialecty series: ‘Sometimes Here Has No Walls’Saturday 8 December 2018, 15:00 – 18:00The Common Guild21 Woodlands TerraceGlasgow, G3 6DF along with:New Minstrelsy of the Scottish BorderHarry Josephine Giles & Martin O’LearyISBN 978 1 906012 92 2Skrubolz GarbillkoreRobert Herbert McCleanISBN 978 1 906012 94 6It Disappears In Blue and Red and GoldHelen NisbetISBN 978 1 906012 93 9Thresholds: A Prosody of CitizenshipLisa RobertsonISBN 978 1 906012 97 7Notes on Just Back from Los Angeles: A Portrait of Yvonne RainerAdam PendletonISBN 978 1 906012 96 0
