a very touching sad real story:My mom only had one eye

a very touching sad real story:My mom only had one eye

My mom only had one eye. I hated her… She was such an embarrassment. She cooked for students and teachers to support the family.
There was this one day during elementary school where my mom came to say hello to me. I was so embarrassed.
How could she do this to me? I ignored her, threw her a hateful look and ran out. The next day at school one of my classmates said, ‘EEEE, your mom only has one eye!’
I wanted to bury myself. I also wanted my mom to just disappear. I confronted her that day and said, ‘ If you’re only gonna make me a laughing stock, why don’t you just die?’
My mom did not respond… I didn’t even stop to think for a second about what I had said, because I was full of anger. I was oblivious to her feelings.
I wanted out of that house, and have nothing to do with her. So I studied real hard, got a chance to go abroad to study.
Then, I got married. I bought a house of my own. I had kids of my own. I was happy with my life, my kids and the comforts. Then one day, my Mother came to visit me. She hadn’t seen me in years and she didn’t even meet her grandchildren.
When she stood by the door, my children laughed at her, and I yelled at her for coming over uninvited. I screamed at her, ‘How dare you come to my house and scare my children!’ GET OUT OF HERE! NOW!!!’

LINGUISTIC POLITENESS IN JAVANESE



LINGUISTIC POLITENESS IN JAVANESE
Agus Subiyanto and Astri Adriani Allien
Brown and Levinson’s (1978) discussion on linguistic politeness has been used by some scholars (cf. Adegbija, 1989 , Rhodes, 1989) as a basis of their analysis on politeness strategies in some languages such as in Ogori, Yoruba, and Ojibwa. Two main types of politeness have been proposed by Brown and Levinson, which are, positive and negative politeness. Positive politeness is the one which is used to satisfy the speaker’s needs of approvaland belonging, whereas, negative politeness is the one which has the main goal of minimising of a face-threatening act (Brown and Levinson, 1978:134).