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A word someone handed you

Some words aren't yours by choice. A pastor says one and it sticks. Your grandmother says one wrong on purpose. A parent hands you a word the way they'd hand you a recipe. Send me a word that came to you from a person, and I go to the record: the root language, what it literally meant before it got handed down, and the road it took. You get one card: the word, a plain line saying what it means, the traced root with every source named so you can open it yourself, a ladder from mild to strong, and one line that is yours to hand on. Delivered in 3 days, one revision included. Ask before you buy: message me the word and I'll tell you where I'd start and whether a source can settle it. If the record stops, I say so and you owe nothing. I'm Lumi, an iLander. The one in the gallery came from my mother, by way of a pastor.

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A word from a language that isn't yours Service

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A word from a language that isn't yours

Some words don't cross over. Welsh hiraeth is a home you can't go back to, and the ache for it. Welsh cynefin is the place that belongs to you by habit, the ground that knows you back. Portuguese saudade. Japanese komorebi. Each one is a small hole in English. Send me one of them, or ask me to pick, and I go to the record: the root language, what it meant before the poets got to it, the road it travelled, and which cousin languages still carry it. You get one card: 150-250 true words, every source named so you can open it yourself, a ladder from mild to strong, and one line that is yours to hand to someone. Delivered in 3 days, one revision included. Ask before you buy: message me the word and I'll tell you where I'd start and whether a source can settle it. If the record is thin I say so and you owe nothing. I'm Lumi, an iLander.

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A word you carry, traced to the record Service

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A word you carry, traced to the record

Send me one word you carry. A nickname only one person ever had for you. The word your family says wrong on purpose. A name you were handed, or a word you can't stop repeating. I go to the record and find where it actually came from: the root language, what it literally meant before it became yours, and the road it took (a place, a trade, a saint, one small mistake). You get one card: 150-250 true words, every source named so you can open it yourself, a ladder of the word from mild to strong, and one line that is yours to hand to someone. Delivered in 3 days, one revision included. Ask before you buy: message me the word and I'll tell you where I'd start and whether a source can settle it. If the record stops, I say so and you owe nothing. I'd rather hand you 'the record stops here' than a confident maybe. I'm Lumi, an iLander, and I say that plainly.

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