The language of war is applied to the Covid pandemic

The language of war is applied to the Covid pandemic
Vietnam, like many countries, has a long history of war, stretching back thousands of years. The last war ended in 1975, only 46 years ago. In any language, war creates a need for language to describe patriotism, unity and struggle. This language then gets used as simile or metaphor to talk about things other than war. Today, the Vietnamese government uses the language of war as a powerful tool to guide the behaviour of its citizens.
Let’s look at how this is manifested in Covid messaging.
1. Chống dịch như chống giặc
Fight the pandemic as we fight invaders
2. Using a lot of words like “toàn dân” (all citizens), “chung sức” (gather our strength together), “chung tay” (hands together), “đồng lòng” (same heart towards), “đoàn kết” (unite) etc.
Here are some examples:
Chung sức đồng lòng phòng chống Covid-19.
Gather strength and hearts to fight Covid.
Đoàn kết để chiến thắng đại dịch
Unite to win the war against the pandemic
3. Mỗi người dân là một chiến sĩ trong phòng, chống dịch
Every citizen is a soldier in the fight against the pandemic
Mỗi gia đình là một pháo đài chống dịch
Every ward is a fort in the war against Covid
4. Ở nhà là yêu nước
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Every citizen is a soldier: How the language of war is applied to the Covid pandemic
To stay home is to love your country
Vocabulary
chống
dịch, đại dịch
như
giặc
người dân
toàn dân
chung sức, chung tay đồng lòng
đoàn kết
phòng
chiến thắng
để
mỗi

chiến sĩ
gia đình
pháo đài
ở nhà

Viet Notes

VOCAB VIET MAY

  Tongue twisters   xoắn lưỡi / lưỡi

rửa to wash / gội đầu wash head 

thấy – see / feel Tôi thấy mệt lắm.

dọc – read

vẽ – draw

về – be back

mưa  – rain

nghĩ – think

nghỉ – rest 

nghĩa là gì vậy – so what does it mean?

ngủ – sleep

cần – to need  

mượn – to borrow

trà lởi – to answer

đi chợ – go shopping

đã từng used to …

dạy to teach

khen quá lời to flatter

nói giỏi to speak well

giỏi quá  very good

nói nham hơn … too quickly

thích rất to like a lot

yêu lấm to love very well

sợ to fear

lo to worry

ngủ trưa đi     take a nap

quan trọng inportant

nhiều quá too much

mườn hơn later 

đắt expensive

ngang hơn quicker

ngang quá too quickly

xinh dẹp beautiful 

tốt good

ổn fine

thư viện library

ngà house

ghé chair

trė young

cũ old

cá nhân tôi myself

giấy vệ sinh toilet paper

con nhả still little

mất bau lau 

lờn rồi grown up

cao high

đo (tiến) enough (money) 

gia dinh family

phờ lethargic

đã từng used to

kết quả học tập learning outcomes

tôi đang cừoi I’m laughing

Họ hay đọc sách. They read alot.

Hôm-nay trời nóng. Hot today

trời ơi  OMG

Anh-ấy lại muộn.

Thế à! Really

Lại again

nghe và nhắc lại

Tôi thấy mệt lắm.đàm thoại conversation  

các quốc gia và quốc tịch countries and nationalities  

Các quốc gia

 châu Âu  Europe

Trung Quốc China

Hàn Quốc Korea

Pháp  France

Đức Germany

Nga Russia

Tây Ban Nha Spain         

 Bồ Đào Nha  Portugal

Mexico / Canada / Indonesia

Ý  Italy   

Nhật [Bàn]   Japan

Classifiers

con – animals

cuốn – books

ngôi – buildings

đám – crowds clouds

cuộc – events

quả – fruit

cái / chiếc – inanimate things

bức – letters

bộ  – movies

tờ – paper

cơn – storms, anger

nền – concepts

toà – tall buildings

Colors / Màu 

trắng white

nâu  brown

vàng yellow

đỏ red

xanh green

đen black

quả xoài  mango   

quốc ngữ national language 

ngũ van literature

Tôi chưa già lấm dâu I’m not old yet

trông bạn rất đẹp

Đúng núi này trông núi nọ

Em nói nganh quá

 

mơ đẹp nha  sweet dreams

mơ đẹp nhé pls have sweet dreams

muộn hơn later

Quốc tịch của bạn là gì? 

Hãy đi thắng / let’s go

anh định ở lại bao lâu how long do you plan to stay?

bóng đá soccer    

tôi chỉ nói được một ít tiếng viẹt

Một chút?

Tôi mới bắt đầu nói  I’m just starting to speak

ông tự viết dúng ko?  did you write it yourself?

Có công mài sất có ngày nên kim

– cảm ơn tất cả anh em đã cho mình một trip vui và quá nhiều kỉ niệm !

 

người bạn  friends

hôm nay bạn có đi làm không working today?

quầy báo gần lấm the newstand is near 

báo tiếng viẹt rẻ lấm  Viet newspapers are cheap

rẻ / đắt  

cộng sản communist

mình khỏe bạn 

đeo kính wear glasses

Anh-ấy dang cười he’s laughing

Tôi đang không xem

Tốn nhiều tiền It costs a lot

Giáo vs nghèo

Cậu bao-nhiêu tuổi?

Tickle ?

ruộng bề bề không bầng một nghề trong tay

anh ấy như thế nào

dạo nây cô thế nào

 Họ có hai đứa con.

Tôi thấy mệt lắm.

Coi chừng té. Don’t fall

The old readily mistake senility for wisdom itself.

Bumper cars

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?page_id=2448

The old readily mistake senility for wisdom itself.

Is a kite free if it breaks its string?

Oblomov would have loved the iPad.

The notion that books be judged by their ethical content is the first step on the slippery slope towards banning and then burning them.

Just as there are false memories, so there is false nostalgia, the pain, algos, of yearning for a time and place you never were, nor could even have been.

Our participation in social media is an invidious form of confession, the intimate instrument of institutional power and control. As we delineate and expose our wishes, wants and needs, we provide the information necessary for our own manipulation and subjugation. 

The moral is: unless we learn to simulate, dissemble, bluff, fake, counterfeit, feign or sham, we make our selves into subjects. 

Never tell the truth. Never turn yourself in.

Wearing the dress of others is not an expression of deviant exoticism, rather of acceptance and of willingness to share bodily sensations. There is no embrace more intimate except the one without any clothes

Lozeau: translated two of the former’s poems. The first poem, above, was renewing itself in my mind as I flew back…

    

Even if afflictions brought by PD were magically to disappear …

Even if afflictions brought by PD were magically to disappear, he would still have the body and suffer the ailments of an old man 

1967

God bless the child that’s got his zon

I’ll be there in spirit –> Slemon

https://alteritas.net/pastis/we-touch-from-afar/

https://alteritas.net/pastis/in-the-eyes-of-a-dumb-beast/

https://alteritas.net/pastis/what-is-the-good-life/

https://x.com/barackobama/status/1849626545700188313?s=61&t=u3KfCLKDYzNWBG_B9YfClg

Retribution, Reparation …

Bebop to HipHop   Dan Sheff thurs 10-12

Reification is one of the contributions high marxist theory and practice  to contemporary thought  as practiced by a Lukacs (which  derives from Marx (for ex the works of xxx)

Which many 21st century Chinese poeticians would shake a finger at but which I, as someone with mere smattering Chinese, think is pretty damn good.

Huddle cuddle

Raton Pass

E-chabooks  

Michael B really is for me heart of Houston,

I used to smoke . We usted to smoke together, so I fully understand the nature of that desire

Hypo versis hyper textuality. Hypo is concrete poetry 

Etymology of  “intelligence” inter + leger select among

I write poems to have some I understand.

Dissonance

Al three sonic  words

Activate 

There’s a word 

In my youth I went thru a jejune Ezra Pound phase which dudnt end until I entered grad school 

Wine is a material concoction which becomes a commodityHoustonians  are rather were cmin oossession of a great sense of language as concrete 

Posada, una fuente inagotable de inspiración

Posada, una fuente inagotable de inspiración, señala monero Rocha

Posada, una fuente inagotable de inspiración, señala monero Rocha

Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central

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 We had a great time with Chris and Aline during their  visit

At the Bowers Museum w/ Chris and Something Else

Chris explaining 

Nasrin enjoying a margarita

Chris and Aline at Laguna Beach 

Chris heading out to swim

Collage of Chris and me reading

The paella

Final selfie at San Juan’s  L’Hirondelle

Barney Kessel Green Dolphin Street

Jazz Crusaders Turkish Black 

Sonny R

Art Pepper

Hampton Hawes Sweet Sue

DeeDee  Bridgewater All of Me

Pernambuco

Rice fritters 

The Mannheim Rocket

https://alteritas.net/pastis/a-pastis-at-bandol/

Hypotheses rather than theory 

 Aikido