Things you wish you could say

[The Moonshiner]

An aggressive animal attacked your small child and you let it live?!!!

what do you mean this has happened multiple times?!

Maybe you need to rehome your kids since you don't seem to put your kids safety and wellbeing as priority.

That was a hard one to walk away from.

 

[nuthatched]

That was a hard one to walk away from.

I'm amazed it seems to be a common problem. Your 2 yo has a bleeding gash and want to "keep your roo because you have a bond"?!!
What is wrong with people.

 

[bill3607]

I'm amazed it seems to be a common problem. Your 2 yo has a bleeding gash and want to "keep your roo because you have a bond"?!!
What is wrong with people.

I don't know, but one thing is obvious, they are not fond of homemade chicken n dumplings or chicken noodle soup.

 

[Nabiki]

Words matter.

If you speak another language, have you noticed that how you think changes depending on the language you think in? When I think in English, I tend to be pretty independent in my actions and thoughts. When I think in Japanese, my benaviour and thoughts become much more aware of and responsive to social hierarchy. My body language becomes a lot more contained. When I think in French, my thoughts change and my body language becomes a lot more expressive and my hands become part of my speech.

So many people seem to think that "It's just a joke", or, "You shouldn't take what I said seriously" means that it's okay to say things that belittle or demean entire segments of the population. This could be a political group, another race, another gender, or any group of people that isn't "us" or "them".

The problem is, when we repeat something often enough, we internalize it. We begin to believe it subconsciously, then consciously. For example, I knew a young man once who referred to every woman as the word for a female dog. He thought it was just words and was completely shocked when he was called out on it. He didn't even know he was doing it, but you could watch his actions to see that he considered women to be beneath him. After being called out on it, he began to use the B word less, and his actions towards women began to be less dismissive as well.

If we don't have a word for a concept, we have a hard time wrapping our heads around it. Once we have a word for it, we begin to internalize the concept. Linguists worry about languages dying, not because a culture might be lost, but because a concept might be.

Think about the words you use. Think about how they affect the people around you.

Words matter.

 

[FrostRanger]

I'm amazed it seems to be a common problem. Your 2 yo has a bleeding gash and want to "keep your roo because you have a bond"?!!
What is wrong with people.

People have gone soft in all the wrong ways. Yes, compassion is good but also extend that compassion to your child

 

[notabitail]

Don't break your finger and act like it's all just fine. Get the thing fixed and quit being "tough".

 

[tripletfeb]

Words matter.

If you speak another language, have you noticed that how you think changes depending on the language you think in? When I think in English, I tend to be pretty independent in my actions and thoughts. When I think in Japanese, my benaviour and thoughts become much more aware of and responsive to social hierarchy. My body language becomes a lot more contained. When I think in French, my thoughts change and my body language becomes a lot more expressive and my hands become part of my speech.

So many people seem to think that "It's just a joke", or, "You shouldn't take what I said seriously" means that it's okay to say things that belittle or demean entire segments of the population. This could be a political group, another race, another gender, or any group of people that isn't "us" or "them".

The problem is, when we repeat something often enough, we internalize it. We begin to believe it subconsciously, then consciously. For example, I knew a young man once who referred to every woman as the word for a female dog. He thought it was just words and was completely shocked when he was called out on it. He didn't even know he was doing it, but you could watch his actions to see that he considered women to be beneath him. After being called out on it, he began to use the B word less, and his actions towards women began to be less dismissive as well.

If we don't have a word for a concept, we have a hard time wrapping our heads around it. Once we have a word for it, we begin to internalize the concept. Linguists worry about languages dying, not because a culture might be lost, but because a concept might be.

Think about the words you use. Think about how they affect the people around you.

Words matter.

I have never thought about people thinking in different languages. I'm assuming it depends on what language is appropriate for whatever they are doing at the time. This is very interesting

 

[Nabiki]

I have never thought about people thinking in different languages. I'm assuming it depends on what language is appropriate for whatever they are doing at the time. This is very interesting

Have you ever seen the movie "The Arrival"? The weirdness that happens to the main character as she learns the alien language is an attempt to show how language affects our thinking. Anyone who is reasonably fluent in another language, especially one from a very different culture will tell you the same.

 

[tripletfeb]

Have you ever seen the movie "The Arrival"? The weirdness that happens to the main character as she learns the alien language is an attempt to show how language affects our thinking. Anyone who is reasonably fluent in another language, especially one from a very different culture will tell you the same.

No, I've never heard of that movie. I'll have to look it up

 

[ShrekDawg]

Have you ever seen the movie "The Arrival"? The weirdness that happens to the main character as she learns the alien language is an attempt to show how language affects our thinking. Anyone who is reasonably fluent in another language, especially one from a very different culture will tell you the same.

Is it the 2016 one? Arrival? Cause there’s also a 90s one apparently, The Arrival, that I think is separate? But similar lol