Should it fall only on those descended from First Peoples to learn these languages? One could argue that settler Australians who acknowledge that they live on unceded First Nations land could do their part by learning and using some of the local language (and lore that goes with it).
Though with these languages being exclusively oral and unwritten, and post-settlement society depending extensively on writing, incorporating them in everyday life may be difficult. One could formulate orthographies and dictionaries for them, but then one would arguably have a constructed language that’s more a fan fiction of the original language.
Don’t use the passive voice and weasel-words. If you want to make claims make them.
It could be argued that the use of the passive voice and the abstract attribution of an argument to a nebulous other. A practice which has been described in some literature as the use of “weasel-words”, has a deleterious effect on comprehension and dilutes discussion by making unclear distinctions between the beliefs of interlocutors and mere speculation.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Should it fall only on those descended from First Peoples to learn these languages? One could argue that settler Australians who acknowledge that they live on unceded First Nations land could do their part by learning and using some of the local language (and lore that goes with it).
Though with these languages being exclusively oral and unwritten, and post-settlement society depending extensively on writing, incorporating them in everyday life may be difficult. One could formulate orthographies and dictionaries for them, but then one would arguably have a constructed language that’s more a fan fiction of the original language.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Don’t use the passive voice and weasel-words. If you want to make claims make them.
It could be argued that the use of the passive voice and the abstract attribution of an argument to a nebulous other. A practice which has been described in some literature as the use of “weasel-words”, has a deleterious effect on comprehension and dilutes discussion by making unclear distinctions between the beliefs of interlocutors and mere speculation.