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Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / January 2006gendo: informal study group in southern california
After laying 4,476 kilometers of cable, AT&T workers returned to shore for more, allowing scientists to get 19 days of data with the unpowered cable grounded to the ocean floor. Using some fancy statistical footwork, the researchers separated out the direct-current (DC) component due to the core currents from the tangle of alternating-current (AC) signals arising from a variety of sources, such as the erratic flow of ions in the ionosphere, that induced currents in Earth. They obtained a DC potential voltage drop (which is proportional to current) of 0.072 ± 0.050 millivolts per kilometer. - Stefi Weisburd, in Science News, July 6, '85 gendo: a way of thinking... language as a path to liberation... .unconscious, erroneous assumptions imposed upon our thinking by the structure of the language (english) running in our skulls are responsible for most of what is wrong with the world in both the personal and planetary domains when: wednesday and saturday afternoons, between 3 and 5 where: the cafe at Borders Books (91 at Bloomfield in Cerritos) .look for the black and red gendo logo on my dark blue notebook on the table heron unDO email address ___ Nature, heron stone to be commanded, http://www.gendo.net must be obeyed. mailto:heronDO@gendo.net >snip> > > .unconscious, erroneous assumptions imposed upon our thinking > by the structure of the language (english) running in our > skulls are responsible for most of what is wrong with the > world in both the personal and planetary domains So, you are proposing that it is specifically the structure of the *english* language that imposes erroneous assumptions in the minds of its (presumably native) speakers and, thus, causes most of what is wrong with the world? May we assume that before the advent of the English language, that the world was just peachy? If we grew up bi- or tri-lingual, is our responsibility for the world's woes halved or thirded? Presumably, gendo allows us natives to use the phrase: "I plead 'gendo' your honor; I can't be held responsible because my parents raised me speaking English," and, therefore, avoid any need for self-flagellation. Hello Heron, I'm glad mirage raised this question because I've been burning to ask it too. Does gendo believe that unconscious, erroneous assumptions are caused by the structure of ANY language (i.e. our mother tongue, be it Flemish, Norwegian or English, etc.) or does it just believe that the English language is at fault? Jan Hello Heron, I'm glad mirage raised this question because I've been burning to ask it too. Does gendo believe that unconscious, erroneous assumptions are caused by the structure of ANY language (i.e. our mother tongue, be it Flemish, Norwegian or English, etc.) or does it just believe that the English language is at fault? Jan > Hello Heron, > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Jan hi Jan .i assume that it applies to all languages, but since english appears to be taking over, i think it's important to begin eliminating the stupidities from english .belief, itself, is the great sin heron unDO email address ___ Nature, heron stone to be commanded, http://www.gendo.net must be obeyed. mailto:heronDO@gendo.net In article <1138346586.495678.298370@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>, > > .unconscious, erroneous assumptions imposed upon our thinking > > by the structure of the language (english) running in our [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > tri-lingual, is our responsibility for the world's woes halved or > thirded? .i presume that all languages are subject to this problem .but i'm concentrating my efforts on debugging english .i'll leave the rest to others > Presumably, gendo allows us natives to use the phrase: "I plead > 'gendo' your honor; I can't be held responsible because my parents > raised me speaking English," and, therefore, avoid any need for > self-flagellation. .well, yes, that's true .most sapes are unconscious language robots most of the time, but once you know that, it's no longer an excuse unDO email address ___ Nature, heron stone to be commanded, http://www.gendo.net must be obeyed. mailto:heronDO@gendo.net |
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