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Trivia is triumphant in NZ.
Like there is never any really depth of analysis.
todays example is from like 9-noon where like Kathryn Ryan interviewed like british academic Claire Denbury from the Cambridge Corpus, a project to list all the words and phrases in the English Language.
There was no mention of Denburys academic specialty and it sounded like Denbury was a professional pommie. i.e speaking a dialect learned off the telly and trying to be upper class at the same time????
larfs.
anyway she is like many cunning linguists who have never studied logic whcih manifests itself in not understanding the use of the word 'so' in logic nor being aware of the invalid use of interrogatives.
this is inexcusable.
but to the main point, bullying is epidemic in New Zealand and it comes from the top down.
Like bullying is is enforced and re-inforced by the use of interrogatives in the media which have trickled down off the telly from low rent pommie soapsand become become part of everyday speech. like they all do it doan ay.
The linguists at new Zealand universities who specialise in pandering to kids have categorised interrogatives as 'tag endings" when in fact they are linguistic devices designed to ensure complicity and obedience, aren't they.
When the media run one of their annual anti bullying campaigns they dont seem to be aware that they are the main contributors to verbal violence and their lack of standards and ability to analyse themselves is a prime cause.
I guess they are so used to having people kiss their bums because they are on telly or sumfing that they cant stand the thought of anybody disagreeing with them can they.
Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury,pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen
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Like there is never any really depth of analysis.
todays example is from like 9-noon where like Kathryn Ryan interviewed like british academic Claire Denbury from the Cambridge Corpus, a project to list all the words and phrases in the English Language.
There was no mention of Denburys academic specialty and it sounded like Denbury was a professional pommie. i.e speaking a dialect learned off the telly and trying to be upper class at the same time????
larfs.
anyway she is like many cunning linguists who have never studied logic whcih manifests itself in not understanding the use of the word 'so' in logic nor being aware of the invalid use of interrogatives.
this is inexcusable.
but to the main point, bullying is epidemic in New Zealand and it comes from the top down.
Like bullying is is enforced and re-inforced by the use of interrogatives in the media which have trickled down off the telly from low rent pommie soapsand become become part of everyday speech. like they all do it doan ay.
The linguists at new Zealand universities who specialise in pandering to kids have categorised interrogatives as 'tag endings" when in fact they are linguistic devices designed to ensure complicity and obedience, aren't they.
When the media run one of their annual anti bullying campaigns they dont seem to be aware that they are the main contributors to verbal violence and their lack of standards and ability to analyse themselves is a prime cause.
I guess they are so used to having people kiss their bums because they are on telly or sumfing that they cant stand the thought of anybody disagreeing with them can they.
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Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury,pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen
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