TIL that some languages apparently have words inherently differentiating one's status as a citizen or resident of the entity versus a member of a particular ethnic or cultural group? I don't quite grasp the whole thing, although I heard the point being made. What's interesting to me is a) that there is such a thing, which seems very revealing of something about a culture that would need such concepts built into the language, and b) that there seem to be people who think it's inaccurate to interpret the word choice as meaningful. Firstly, since languages have all sorts of concepts built into them, many very specific to their primary culture of use, it seems reasonable that such a thing could exist. Not that I would have thought of it before, since I'm not from a culture where that sort of subtlety functions. Secondly, if that is, indeed, the subtlety of the word choices, where one essentially and inherently includes people, and the other excludes, then I'd kind o...
Preach it sister.
ReplyDeleteAlthough for me, today has to be better than yesterday.
Today is fired with extreme prejudice here, too.
ReplyDeleteWord.
ReplyDeleteCan I hire all the rest of all-y'all's todays, then? I've got, like, eight days' worth of shit to do.
ReplyDeleteAmy Young I would totally, but a) You would never sell me something that is so low quality, and b) The time-block of today is an entire-day-of-meeting.
ReplyDeleteAmy Young you are proposing to give me money in exchange for my lazing about and doing nothing, so you can get more work done?
ReplyDeleteCHALLENGE ACCEPTED
Amy Young, I think you will have problems getting my day to do any productive work, it being sleep deprived and all.
ReplyDeleteIt's actually not far from how my day is going today, anyway:
ReplyDelete1) Try to encode scenario in Symbolic Perseus
2) Run simulation
3) Wait an hour
4) Get an array index error back from SP at a non-predictable point in the execution with no hint whatsoever of why that is happening.
Although I suspect the mere act of using software written in both Matlab and Java is just asking for an index error at some point.
Tonight's anticipated activities:
1) Go home
2) Try to get the VPN to campus open
3) Fail
4) Call AT&T to find out if and why they are blocking UDP packets all of a sudden, which is the likely culprit
5) Waste three hours looking for someone in tech support who can spell UDP