[Sportsandrec] Research Not Survey

[Roger Acuna]

Good morning?  Are you in Australia?  Its 2:00 in the afternoon  from where 
I'm sitting!
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From: "Carly Mihalakis" <carlymih at comcast.net>
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Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] Research Not Survey


> 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" 
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>>Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 11:36 AM
>>Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] Research Not Survey
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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
>>>>
>>>>Inveniam Viam Aut Faciam
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>>>--
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>>>JALOUCHART at GMAIL.COM
>>>
>>>Inveniam Viam Aut Faciam
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