Subject: Re: AUT: Re: Basque
From: chris wright <cwright.21stcentury-AT-rcn.com>
Date: 28 Feb 2003 12:33:12 -0600


Harald,

Thank you and...

agreed and agreed!

Cheers,
Chris

On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 12:17, Harald Beyer-Arnesen wrote:
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> From: "chris wright" <cwright.21stcentury-AT-rcn.com>
> To: "aut-op-sy" <aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
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> Subject: Re: AUT: Re: Basque
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> Chris; I take the critique. It was well deserved.
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> But two marginal points. There is no way around
> some degree of  standardization of written languague
> if it is to serve as communication tool at all. If all wrote
> precisely as they spoke most people probably would
> have a problem understanding even what they had written
> themselves. Of course, as always, rules are to be
> broken, but to play, you first need a framework to
> play within and without. That the standardarization
> norms almost always is based on the language of
> the elites, is another thing, and comes as no
> surprise.  I seem to recall  that modern Swedish -- 
> oddly enough -- partially is an excepetion. So is originally
> certainnly also the formentioned so-called Nynorsk.,
> based as it is on peasant dialects, although it
> increasingly has evolved into a academic an
> bureuacratic language.
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> So to the following << 'races' (which as Thiago correctly
> pointed out, obviously do not exist in biological or
> cultural terms.) >>
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> Races do not exist. Period. But the notion of such do.
> And these notions are wedded to biology -- to some-
> thing you supposedly intrinsically are, and are born as,
> and not merely something you do. There is a slippery
> path to this from other forms of chauvinist generalizations,
> but it is still an important difference.
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> Harald
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