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30 days of improving my craft and working towards landing a video-editing client.

One day at a time. 🚀

Editing • Typography • Motion Design • Cinematography

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My coinages include: - War without weaponry - Dearly duly digitally document - Immortalized - Brother today, father tomorrow - Allowed anomaly - Stopped seeking to find - Averted cold wars in heated warm hot peace talks - Tinker therapy Richest poverty Sweetening Solitude Force fails - Staff not gold - Gold dust to cold dust - Pound cocoyam And others as in poemhunter site and the memoir Echoes of an amazing amazon

These are not just new words. They are morphology of memory and syntax of soul.

ROOT: ODNNNN Ochie Dike Nnem na Nnam, Nwanyi Ka Nwoke — The Amazing Amazon of Ojoto. She primed my passion, forged my tongue. From Ojoto idioms to global English syntax.

Unlike normal money coin, Cemalukian coinage mints coin in tongue: meaning over metal. From one-room provision store to provision of words.

This case study shows how my work compares with titans of word coinage like Shakespeare, Achebe, Soyinka — but mine is different because it is anchored on my mother. A passionate poet's marble inscription for an extraordinary matriarch of two giants — Egbuonu and Cemaluk. The latter a hybrid naturally towering above the former and peers.

KEYWORDS: Cemalukian coinage, Tony Cemaluk, Tony Cemaluk Egbuonu, ODNNNN, Ojoto dialect, Nigerian English coinage, Igbo English contact, matriarchal linguistics

ORIGINAL POSTER & LIVE POEM: https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/cemalukian-coinage-now-a-linguistic-case-study/

Tony Cemaluk Egbuonu Ojoto, Anambra State October 2026

#cemaluk #cemalukian #ODNNNN #Ojoto #NigerianEnglish

I considered it my best friend and because of that I invested heavily in nurturing it,

I fed it well and it grew so big it eventually weighed over 1000 kg and stretched more than 150 meters long

For years we lived under thesame roof

it was a black mamba snake I had taken in as a pet

Then one day my snake stopped eating ,

I tried everything I could think of to persuade it to eat but it refused

so I consulted a veterinary doctor who carried out a complete examination of the snake and told me

There is nothing wrong with your snake

So I asked the obvious question ,if there is nothing wrong with my snake why has it refused to eat?

The doctor looked at me and said ....

This powerful and deeply reflective book takes you on a journey into the heart of self-esteem, uncovering how childhood experiences, relationships, criticism, failure, culture, comparison, and the inner critic can shape the way you see yourself, and how those patterns can be challenged and changed. Rather than offering empty promises of constant confidence or pretending that insecurity can simply disappear, it presents a grounded roadmap toward genuine self-worth: learning to separate failure from identity, replacing self-attack with honest self-reflection, developing real competence, setting healthy boundaries, choosing relationships built on mutual respect, and learning to face rejection, criticism, uncertainty, and disappointment without abandoning yourself.

Along the way, you will discover why achievement alone cannot make you feel worthy, why perfectionism can hide fear, why comparison can quietly destroy your peace, why understanding your past does not mean becoming trapped in it, and why self-respect is built through the small choices you make every day.

Most importantly, this book challenges you to stop treating your personal worth as something you must earn through success, approval, appearance, money, relationships, or recognition.

It invites you to build a healthy relationship with yourself, one rooted in honesty, dignity, compassion, responsibility, resilience, and growth. Because you do not need to become perfect to deserve respect, you do not need to eliminate every doubt to move forward, and you do not need to become someone else to become worthy; you need to learn how to return to yourself when life makes you question your value, and from that foundation, begin to live with greater freedom, courage, clarity, and purpose.

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