[Sportsandrec] Research Not Survey

[Carly Mihalakis]

Good morning, Justin and others,

I am blind. In my experience, other blind folk's affectionate if not 
somewhat irreverent  term for the cane is stick. For me, cane sounds 
like you take the device with more seriousness than it ought to be 
taken. So, I call it a stick and am proud of doing so.
>----- Original Message ----- From: "JUSTIN LOUCHART" <jalouchart at gmail.com>
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>Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 11:36 AM
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>>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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>>>--
>>>Justin Louchart
>>>JALOUCHART at GMAIL.COM
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>>--
>>Justin Louchart
>>JALOUCHART at GMAIL.COM
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>>Inveniam Viam Aut Faciam
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