I'm sadly not fluent in anything but English, but I've put significant work in the past into Spanish, Danish, Swedish (and only 1 year into French and ASL)...
Something I noticed about languages, esp when I started picking up books about insults & swearwords in other languages, is that they crystalize what the culture most prizes and most abhors. Or at least did some time in the past.
It says something about English that so many of our insult words have to do with disability #Language #Ableism
Something I noticed about languages, esp when I started picking up books about insults & swearwords in other languages, is that they crystalize what the culture most prizes and most abhors. Or at least did some time in the past.
It says something about English that so many of our insult words have to do with disability #Language #Ableism
Megan Lynch (she/her) •
When one tries to come up with alternate terms for what one *really* finds offensive about someone when one is really not trying to be ableist, racist, sexist, homophobic, classist, etc...it can be a struggle. #Language
Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷 •
'Tone deaf'
'Blind referree'
'Crippled by circumstances'
'Throw like a girl'
I'm not getting into the viler insults, and truly wonder how Signers deal with casual racism, sexism, etc.