[Sportsandrec] Research Not Survey

[Roger Acuna]

Wait! Let me pull out my supercalifragilistic dictionary!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JUSTIN LOUCHART" <jalouchart at gmail.com>
To: "Sports and Recreation for the Blind Discussion List" 
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Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] Research Not Survey


> Hi, Ashley,
>
> That makes sense. We're taught as soon as we get a cane that it is a
> cane, it has a proper name, and persons who have any opportunity to
> know that name should both know and implement that name.
> Unfortunately, cultural rules are very often not truths. It is a
> stick. At its core, it is a stick. I call it a cane, I'm mildly amused
> when others don't call it a cane, but I'm not offended. I happen to
> know the difference between an initialism and an acronym, and there is
> a strict grammatical (and thereby cultural)  differentiation between
> those two words just as it is a strict differentiation between a cane
> and a stick. I try not to be offended, however, when someone doesn't
> know or chooses not to utilize what I understand to be a clear
> separation of terms. They have their reasons, I have mine, and it's
> important to me to not be offended by their less permanent choices.
> We're not destroying the integrity of the thing by nominating it
> tangentially to its cultural nomination.
>
> Regards,
> Justin
>
> On 8/11/12, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> 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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>>
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