I could go further off into a philosophical phenomenological model and state
that we are all embodied beings in a constant state of flux and negotiation
of our physicality with a perceived environment. We are never the same as
we move from one place to another, and reshape that embodiment as we grow
older. It's as old as the riddle of the sphinx as to what goes on four legs
in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening. What
we are is what we are at any particular time and place, but of course we are
not the whole of what we have ever been or will be until that asymptotic
moment before our last gasp.
People first language is of course only possible in those languages which
can re-arrange the language in different ways to signify the same thing, but
really I consider it somewhat Yodaesque.
Chiasmus is the rhetorical device whereby some phrase can be reversed to
have a different and rather dramatic effect, but people first language is
not chiasmus, it is rather parody and at times as this article illustrates
pure farce.
(and that's two rather's in a sentence, very bad prose indeed, the
stylemeister will be after me.)
Larry
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> The problem is that disability and disabled people are still seen
negatively. Otherwise,
> there would not be a need to distance the person from the impairment by
the use of
> people first language. The comment about not defining a person by a
diagnosis
> indicates a medical model approach.
> Marion
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