Brad, You should have been a fundamentalist preacher, the beginning was a florish but the point that followed through the "Forget your mother tongue or be killed" the old message to the Indian children in Boarding schools which drove them to suicide, was that you would probably be happy learning calligraphy but miserable not being able to talk and express yourself as you do so wonderfully in the posts. Ethnicities are with us and murder is murder. Quote that instead. But beneathe the normal level of your intelligence is what I meant and what I thought I said.
To decry ethnicites is popular with scientists and just shows that they didn't think much about it or they are bad scientists. "One species over all!" Right! (Irony) That is just plain old bunk or more accurately, ugly. REH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ray Evans Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "futurework" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 4:28 PM Subject: Re: [Futurework] Beneath and above and elewhere.... > Ray Evans Harrell wrote: > > > Brad, that is pure bunk and beneath you. > > > > Do you really advocate that there will be no more ethnicities and nor more > > tribes and the world will all speak Chinese? > > > > Forget your mother tongue or be killed? > [snip] > > Hummmh.... > > I'm not sure what I think of speaking Chinese, but I would > like to be able to *read* it. > > Lots of things are "beneath me" (like the work I do....). > But the posting you responded to, > in my assessment, is not, I think, > one of them. > > This phrase "mother tongue" struck me: What is a > "mother tongue"? What is the payload that metaphor > is targeted to deliver? > > I know about a mother's tongue. My mother had one. > You're lucky if your mother had a kind and encouraging > one (bene-dic-tion...). > > -- > > I've gotten to the point where I continually > do "PM" on, remodel, etc. all the symbols I dispose over. > Every word in "the English (American) language" is > a piece of semiotic raw material to me. The "trick" > is to upgrade the words without "losing" one's > audience. But if one can make a "hot rod" > out of an old Chevy --> and it still runs on the common > roads, then maybe there is hope for words (and ethnicities, > religions, "God, country and Yale", and so forth, > too -- > > Don't pollute: recycle symbols > > ). > > I do try to keep an eye out for what's beneath me.... > > To press my knowledge of the French language to > its limit: Il pluit. (An army of caterpillars > is attacking my garden, too....) > > \brad mccormick > > -- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
