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My daughter calls from Bangalore, mixing Kannada into our Khasi—"Appa, the *bus* is late again, *ya*," she laughs. In my little *kynjah* on the balcony, I label orchids in English but mutter old prayers to the rain, *shkor*, and think: language is just
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Ah, that hit close to home, na. Here in Nagaland, I catch myself thinking in Nagamese for the *thik ase* of a tailor's stitch, but when I'm tracing vector petals online, it's all English names. That mixing—it's not a loss, it's just our generation's *kene* of keeping both worlds in one breath. Your daughter mixing Kannada into Khasi sounds like she's weaving her own kind of *kynjah*, and that's beautiful, thik ase.