Comments by "Brenda Rua" (@brendarua01) on "Karina Galperin: Should we simplify spelling? (with English subtitles) | TED" video.

  1. What a delightful and thoughtful presentation! While the issues she raises apply to all languages and writing systems, it is a treat to hear about them from another culture's perspective. I appreciate the translation to English or I might have had to skip the talk. I certainly would have lost the nuances of her speech. Well Done, TED!
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  2. 7even, that doesn't follow. Your insecurities are showing.
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  3. Sarimasu, while I enjoy etymology for how it informs culture and history, I see no reason to burden the process of communication with such baggage. Most users of a language are not even aware of how and why their words are what they are. That knowledge conveys nothing to the message being delivered except perhaps tangential information about the writer's class, education, or culture. The presenter addresses this issue well in my view. It can be maintained in the halls of academia - where it is now anyway.
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  4. Well, well, well, what a surprise Flamingo. You enjoy looking a fool? Thanks Nedaxel for doing Bill's work for him.
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  5. Gladly. In jr high some friends and I had to sue the county and state board of education because females were prohibited based upon gender from the wrestling programs. In high school me and some friends had to sue again to get girls soccer supported even though the boys had it and football. The argument was that we had other teams sports like lacrosse and given budget constraints it wasn't affordable. There you have both de jure and de facto examples that were common throughout the US. In college I wanted to join NROTC, both to serve my country and to gain the collage benefits. But I found out I could not serve in a number of capacities that were combat roles. I was excluded Due To Gender, By Law. I said well thank you kindly and don't trip on your swinging dicks, then went on my way. I trust those three case are sufficiently clear examples. Two are from personal experience,. The last is too, but also, both public and recent. We are seeing this change thankfully But I think case 2 below will show effects linger for quite a while. Let's move on to theory. Case 1) It is well established that participation in sports during formative years is strongly associated with higher chances of completing both high school and college. There is a slightly weaker association of stronger grades with scholastic sports. By reasonable extension the country as a whole benefits by having better citizens. By denying equal access to opportunities, you therefore deny subsequent benefits. Case 2) Promotion to the highest ranks in military is strongly dependent on combat experience. And rightly so. (There might be no better example of a BFOQ except maybe needing balls to stud out.) But women have been denied entry into the ranks of combat arms by law in the US. As a consequence they are under represented in grades 05 or higher.
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  6. Bill I think my examples under "Gladly" address your request more than sufficiently. I'll just add that you tossing out your examples about men in response to Warrior is gratuitous and not to any point being discussed. It is the equivalent of protesting "But Mom!!!"
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  7. I'm sorry Bill but you're opinions of of no weight at all anymore since you are uninformed and apparently not willing to inform yourself. You shoot your mouth off from ignorance. I can only lead you to the water (issues). I can't make you drink. Look it up yourself dude. As for the military, I mean fuckn-A! Women just recently went through special trials to show they could engage in special forces level activities. It was ALL over the damn news. But I guess that didn't penetrate your echo chamber. Further I didn't say women couldn't join NROTC. I planned to do so. But that was just background to the point that by law women were excluded because of gender from front line combat branches. Second class citizen. And you totally miss the fucking point about the sports. The schools shouldn't have distinguished between genders in the god damn first place. They used the cost to fix argument. But it didn't fly. They wouldn't have had the extra cost to make it right if they had done the right thing in the first place, and it's no excuse to making the situation right. You asked for examples of second class citizen status. I gave them to you. Cost to fix it doesn't change that you moron. Cost to set it up shouldn't have mattered in the first place. As further counters to your point, my friends and I won. We forced the school system to act justly in the distribution of publicly supported benefits to everyone. In the intervening years, participation in wrestling went from under 1,000 girls nation wide to over 8,000. In addition you now see freestyle for both genders as a competitive sport internationally and in the Olympics. The same thing happened in soccer. But you can more than double the numbers. And the women's soccer team comes home with gold. These prove that given opportunity women will engage. We're done.
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  8. Good one! ROFL
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  9. Masha I congratulae you on your interest in learning other cultures deeply enough to need to learn the language. No doubt many of us could take a lesson or three there.
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  10. Mr. Shiny you have turned her point on it's head. Spelling is important but not in itself. It changes all the time. It is important because it facilitates communication. However we spend far too much time during a critical period of childhood development on learning rules that are too complex. The only things that might get lost by simplifying spelling are "alerts" as to class, culture and education of the writer. That is no serious loss in my book.
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  11. OOoooo I'm so itching to jump in, Bill. I can speak from personal experience or theory. But I'm enjoying this thread between you and the Warrior. It does seem you are open to discussion and not absolutes like it first seemed. That's good for all of us and I'm happy to admit you're not the fool I thought.
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  12. You're wrong. It's no different than saying White Lives Matter. It's true. But it misses the point.
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  13. Cierra, go take your meds honey.
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  14. Sarimasu, I agree if it is important then it is documented on paper. But it does not follow that a presentation live to an audience or on video is irrelevant.
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