This one didn't get sent yestreen because I used the wrong mail addy.
Oh well whether tis relevant or not, twas what I wrote and inscape
nothwithstanding it might merit a mention.
"Was zum Teufel, Diawl an vawr.
Never mind the Kalashnikov Ballet, trouble bin elsewise in this world of woe
and the way I am constructed in conventional terms in my dealing with the
great "they out there" I am essentially as f****d as anyone in a poem by my
fellow Coventrian. Larkin (which is a legitimate literary quote not random
cussing)
Sprach for sich selbst fur das ding in sich ist kennenlos and losig zu
silbersingen als Kant ihn the cant couldn't.
Me first rencontre with this "vulnus" stuff was the old comic book ante,
with regards to the cryptonietzchian underpants outside the trouser wearer,
who was apparently
in an antipodean relationship with vulnus and pelicanociceptionkind.
So there you go .... I'd rather have some protection under the law than
none, and I can say that I have lived in a time when there was none, when I
was "verballed" in a police cell and I still suffer from the consequences of
that injustice to this day."
Larry
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> Subject: Use of the word "vulnerable" and possible alternatives
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> Firstly, please forgive me if you think this is an inappropriate place
> for this discussion: it's not exactly scholarly, but it's relevant to my
> work, and I'm sure yours, too, in many cases.
>
> For some time, now I've been railing against the systemic use of the
> word "vulnerable" by Social Services. I'm sure it's used all over the
> country, not just here.
>
> I'm commenting on a consultation which is to be held, soon, and I've
> said the following - which, I have to admit, may be a bit pompous, but
> I'm trying to make a point:
>
> "I'm going to be picky. As a disabled person, I hate, with every fibre
> of my being, being described as "vulnerable".
>
> EVERYONE is vulnerable, to one extent or another; you stand in front of
> a moving bus going at speed and tell me otherwise! We're all flesh and
> blood, and all "vulnerable" to the "thousand natural shocks that flesh
> is heir to". Good old Hamlet!
>
> The 'v' word is throughout the document, and unless there is some big
> objection I think it should be substituted for another, less contentious
> one. However, try as I might, I can't find an alternative.
>
> As you can see from this link, "vulnerable" could be construed as
> offensive: http://freethesaurus.net/s.php?q=vulnerable "
>
> I just cannot find a better word.
>
> So, has anyone else decided to tackle this head on? If so, what were
> the results?
>
> Yours ever hopefully,
>
> Helen
>
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