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From: magik@wlcrjs.UUCP (Ben Liberman)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
Message-ID: <720@wlcrjs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 19:12:28 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 26 19:12:28 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 29-Jul-85 05:41:43 EDT
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In article <72200001@hpfclq.UUCP> you write:
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>..... I am confident I judge people on the basis of their actions;
>not by their rhetoric, sex, color, age, etcetera. It is noteworthy
>that this confidence was established only after much effort on my part
>to be more open minded and conscientious about other people's cultural
>backgrounds and points of view.....
>
>					Taylor
There are certain points of view (bias) inherent in any language (coumputer as
well as human) that are usually invisable (but no less of an influence) to 
anyone who isn't either multilingual (in which case they can only see the points
of divergence between 2 or more languages and not their common assumptions) or
has been specifically taught to see them.  The result of not changing the
language to eliminate these biases is that each generation must be taught to see
beyond them.  (evolution? of language?...naw, I prefer 15th century english any
day...much more romantic :-)  Granted, change isn't easy, but it seems that the
long term development of culture kinda warrants it.
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Ben Liberman   {ihnp4|ihldt}!wlcrjs!magik