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Re: Linguistic Decolonization
By: antihellenistic Date: February 9, 2023, 6:38 am
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Decolonizing language?
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Re: Linguistic Decolonization
By: acc9 Date: May 26, 2023, 3:03 am
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HTML https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/24/business/cathay-pacific-china-passenger-discrimination-intl-hnk/index.html
“If you can’t say blanket in English, you cannot have it,” a
voice is heard saying in the clip, recorded Sunday on a Cathay
flight to Hong Kong from the southwestern city of Chengdu.
This piece of news has flared up intense debate on China's
internet in the process eliciting many more comments from
personal experiences of Mainlanders on Cathay flights, some of
them revealing that apart from slighting Chinese passengers who
speak Putonghua but not English, Cathay cabin staff had been
witnessed to be exceptionally deferential when serving "white"
passengers. I could well imagine the contrast!
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Re: Linguistic Decolonization
By: guest98 Date: July 25, 2023, 2:08 pm
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HTML https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/mali-drops-french-as-its-official-language/2953490
Mali drops French as its official language
[quote]
With its new constitution, Mali has dropped French, which has
been the West African country's official language since 1960.
Under the new constitution passed overwhelmingly with 96.91% of
the vote in a June 18 referendum, French is no longer the
official language.
French will be the working language from now on, and the 13
national languages spoken in the country will also receive
official language status.
Around 70 local languages are spoken in the country and some of
them, including Bambara, Bobo, Dogon and Minianka, were granted
national language status under a 1982 decree.
On Saturday, Mali's junta leader Col. Assimi Goita put the
country's new constitution into effect, marking the beginning of
the Fourth Republic in the West African nation, the presidency
said.
Since taking power in an August 2020 coup, Mali's military has
maintained that the constitution would be critical to rebuilding
the country.
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Re: Linguistic Decolonization
By: rp Date: August 11, 2023, 5:44 pm
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Re: Linguistic Decolonization
By: rp Date: September 4, 2023, 10:16 pm
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Similar to Chinese, there was an (partly unsuccessful) attempt
to "simplify" the Tamil script:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Tamil_script
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Simplified_tamil_script.png/450px-Simplified_tamil_script.png
Contrary to what it purports to achieve, it does not "simplify"
the script at all. Take the character in the first row before
"simplification" (left side). The character represents the sound
"naa". Before, the vowel and the consonant parts of the word
were combined into a single character. After, however, the
consonant part, "n", and the vowel part, "aa", were split,
thereby requiring separate characters to be drawn for the two
sounds. This is why there are two characters in the right
column, the first represents "n", and the second represents
"aa". How is this simplification?
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Re: Linguistic Decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 21, 2023, 2:59 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/video-venezuelan-president-tells-hong-183251681.html
[quote]Video: Venezuelan president tells Hong Kong reporter to
ask questions in Mandarin instead of English
...
The interaction happened on Sept. 13, in which Maduro explained
to the journalist, "Speak Mandarin, there is no English
interpreter. It's a new world."[/quote]
HTML https://cdn.w600.comps.canstockphoto.com/applause-word-appreciation-ovation-clip-art_csp10916821.jpg
Best comment:
[quote]He's right. The time of mayos controlling the world using
evil bullying tactics is over[/quote]
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Re: Linguistic Decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 20, 2023, 1:17 am
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Brilliant!
HTML https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nhl/wokeism-has-no-end-extremely-disrespectful-to-all-canadians-o-canada-in-punjabi-at-jets-vs-avalanche-leaves-nhl-fans-in-splits/ar-AA1lEy2o
[quote]Ahead of the Winnipeg Jets' clash against the Colorado
Avalanche on Saturday, the NHL made history by featuring a
beautiful rendition of O' Canada in Punjabi.
The Canadian national anthem was sung in Punjabi for the first
time in league history, leaving NHL fans in splits. The
featuring of O' Canada in Punjabi was part of the Jets'
celebration of South Asian Heritage Night at their home in
Canada Life Centre.
The beautiful rendition of the Canadian national anthem in
Punjabi was performed by students from Amber Trails School
kindergarten to grade 8 choir. Notably, this is also the first
school in Manitoba to offer a bilingual English-Punjabi program.
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Fans took to X, formerly Twitter, to give their reactions to O'
Canada in Punjabi.
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"This is extremely disrespectful to all Canadians."[/quote]
Why? If anything, it should be considered more disrespectful to
Canadians for the anthem to be sung in the languages of the
Western colonizers (English/French) than in a language of fellow
victims of Western colonialism.
[quote]In 2020, the Winnipeg Jets honored the Indigenous
peoples' heritage by offering the Canadian national anthem in
the Ojibway language, which was sung by a choir of kids.
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the Punjabi language is quite popular in Canada. As per Stats
Canada, the language is the fourth-most spoken in the country
with more than 500,000 people using it as their primary
language.[/quote]
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Re: Linguistic Decolonization
By: rp Date: August 12, 2024, 12:52 am
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I noticed that in non Western countries, non verbal gestures
play a much more important role in communication than in Western
countries.
Of course, Westerners, being the inferior adulterated subhumans
they are, fail to understand the superiority of this method of
communication, hence mocking things like "head tilt" gesture.
#Post#: 29201--------------------------------------------------
Re: Linguistic Decolonization
By: rp Date: January 17, 2025, 10:57 am
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Since English is a colonial language, what do you propose should
be the official language of America?
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Re: Linguistic Decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 18, 2025, 3:18 pm
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If we ditch English, we lose connection to all the
Counterculture-era American pop music, TV, film, etc.. I made a
similar point about Spanish here:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/linguistic-decolonization/msg9268/#msg9268
I also argued along similar lines regarding jeans here:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dress-decolonization/msg5597/?topicseen#msg5597
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dress-decolonization/msg5601/?topicseen#msg5601
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