----- Original Message -----
From: "Erminia Passannanti" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 31 January 2002 15:37
Subject: Re: respect for english
No, I believe that languages are in fact guilty of not ONE, but MANY
| cultural crimes, if they happen to be imposed upon other idioms, other
| languages.
| Languages bear responsibilities in the deepest anthropological sense,
| since languages are just translate schemes of values, vision of the world,
| system of power.
Then it is the schemers and valuers, the visionaries, the systematisers of
power who bear responsibility
I have heard of animals being put in the dock, but not language. What can
it *mean (sorry to be so pedantic) to say that language bears a
responsibility?
L
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