[Sportsandrec] Research Not Survey

[Ashley Bramlett]

IMO, call a cane what it is, a white cane. I get offended when sighted 
people call my cane a stick. To me that diminishes its importance.

-----Original Message----- 
From: JUSTIN LOUCHART
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 11:06 AM
To: Sports and Recreation for the Blind Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] Research Not Survey

Good morning, Jody,

A stick is actually grammatically and fundamentally correct, seeing as
it serves no other function. A stick is not a definitional preface
based upon matter or material thereof. Our cultural disposition to
meet the word stick with negativity is only that, a cultural
disposition.
In every language I speak the word for the long cane is comparable to
an English word for stick, as in German, schtuk. I would be dismayed
to find this singular cultural disposition causing a glitch between
multiple parties of the blindness contingent. We deal with enough
negativity as humans in the first place, dealing with extra relative
merely to our dialectical diction seems... unnecessary.

Similarly, I'm totally on board with helping to explore historically
significant paradigm shifts. Bring on the Louis and Clark!

Justin

On 8/11/12, jody at thewhitehats.com <jody at thewhitehats.com> wrote:
> Hi Justin,
>
> Yes, and a sighted guide will forget to remind you of curbs and obstacles
> but the guide dog does not forget.  Hahahaha
>
> Especially spouses.
>
> JODY
>
>
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