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Re: Arrogance floats amongst the stars...
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Thu, 13 May 2004 10:50:23 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Pedro Silva wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Don Heyse wrote:
> > Um, what language did you just write that in.
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> Not the one I write my memos in. Or log, or blog, or anything other than
> texts for outside consumption.
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> > Should we ignore your
> > post because it's "written in English for outside consumption"? What
> > are you implying?
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> If I wanted you to ignore my post, I would have written my reply in
> Portuguese. My point is that the author *wants* to get your attention
> actively.
Sure, I thought that was the point of keeping a blog on the internet.
> > I don't get it.
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> Then follow:
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> A blog is primarily some sort of journal, to be shared in the web; no argument
> there. Usually, that is done in the author's language by a number of reasons,
> not least of which is sharing the said document with his closest counterparts,
> friends, family, whatever - who in turn can't be expected to know more than one
> idiom.
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> Now, although I don't question if the authors are in fact Iraqi, the fact the
> blogs are written in English (very good English, for what I could grasp) means a
> number of things.
> First, the authors have good contact with the English-speaking world; NOT the
> sort of contact you gain after one year of occupation, rather the one you have
> *before* the said occupation. Because let's face it, it's not as if English was
> crucial in daily Iraqui life until recently...
> Then comes what I stated in the previous post: it's meant for outside
> consumption. Why not internal? I don't mean "internal" in the strictly Iraqi
> sense, rather the "Arabic language" sense - it might be in the best interest of
> the writers to voice their feelings among those who might benefit most from
> their experiences (read, Arabs).
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> A few questions can be raised: who in Iraq speaks good English and is so
> un-interested in advertising his newfound freedom/benefits to the oppressed who
> live nearby?
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> Follow this line of reason in order to "get it": who can afford the web in
> present-day Iraq? Who could afford good English classes in the not-so-distant
> past? It really isn't the "average Iraqi", Don. But these blogs sure make the
> target audience feel good.
Ok, you're still being too subtle for me, because I still don't get it.
Educated, not average, employed, so what. Enough with the subtle hints,
you're just going to have to tell me flat out who you think these people
are that what they have to say doesn't count.
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