“A lot of native speakers are happy that English has become the world’s
global language. They feel they don’t have to spend time learning
another language,” says Chong.
“But… often you have a boardroom full of
people from different countries communicating in English and all
understanding each other and then suddenly the American or Brit walks
into the room and nobody can understand them.”
The non-native speakers, it turns out, speak more purposefully and
carefully, typical of someone speaking a second or third language.
Anglophones, on the other hand, often talk too fast for others to
follow, and use jokes, slang and references specific to their own
culture, says Chong. In emails, they use baffling abbreviations such as
‘OOO’, instead of simply saying that they will be out of the office.
“The native English speaker… is the only one who might not feel the need to accommodate or adapt to the others,” she adds.
I’ve been thinking about this post all day, and the article glosses over one important detail. All of the “native English speakers” the article mentions belong to the same niche demographic: white collar/corporate professionals
English corporate speak is it’s own fucked up dialect.
It’s so incomprehensible and exclusionary that even a native English speaker with a master’s degree in English will have difficulty parsing it. Trust me when I say that nobody who isn’t a business major knows what the fuck “synergy” means.
And the jargon’s just half the problem. The other half is the gross overuse of hobby-specific expressions and analogies.
Go to most corporate offices and you’ll be bombarded with sports analogies that only make sense to someone who spends all their free time watching ESPN.
I tracked down this quote I read in a tumblr post years ago:
“I remember working with a law school in which white men heavily dominated the faculty. They used lots of sports metaphors (doing an end run, Monday morning quarterbacking, and so on), with legal jargon thrown in for good measure. I suggested that this was not a particularly welcoming trait in their school, that in fact it was sexist, but they paid little attention. I made my point by speaking for about five minutes in dressmaking terms: putting a dart in here, a gusset there, cutting the budget on the bias so it would be more flexible, using a peplum to hide a course that might be controversial. The women in the room laughed; the men did not find it humorous….Language is power, make no mistake about it. It is used to include and exclude and to keep people and systems in their places.”
- Frances E. Kendall, Understanding White Privilege
My point is,
This kind of poor communication probably shouldn’t be blamed on monolingualism alone. It’s most certainly made worse by an exclusionary and elitist work culture.
You’ll probably encounter far fewer communication issues talking to a cashier at a tourist trap than you will talking to a lawyer or a stockbroker.
âWhat? Like, a disabled protagonist? How would that even work? How could someone with a disability be the hero in an action show?â local anime trash boy wonders while sitting next to his box sets of Full Metal Alchemist, showing no hint of irony or self awareness.Â
but is Ed really disabled? sure I get he lost his arm and leg
but heâs still able to move and do things perfectly
He has prosthetics. Having prosthetic limbs (that more than once break amd need repair) doesnt make him not disabled
It should also be noted that Ed:
-had to undergo very painful surgery to get automail
-had to relearn how to write because of his prosthesis (thereâs a post going around showing he had to switch hands etc) and his handwriting is likely a lot worse due to that. This means automail isnât super good for delicate work, unsurprising, considering what itâs made of.Â
-experiences phantom limb pain and therefore other associated stuff (this was only really shown in the manga)
-cannot go anywhere too cold without changing his automail or heâll get really bad frost bite and it will stop working
-cannot go anywhere too hot, period, because the metal attached and under his skin will overheat and he will be badly burned
-Reattachment is painful, but needs to be done frequently if he breaks or outgrows his automail
- itâs HEAVY so much so that the strain has the potential to cause stress on his body, enough that itâs even theorized as possibly stunting his growth.
-it requires regular maintenance or it will break down, as shown when he forgets to do that and itâŚbreaks down
-when it does need to be repaired, it takes time to do that, during which Ed uses regular prosthetics (that usually donât quite fit him).
-costs a lot of money (not a problem for Ed due to high state alchemist salary/having mechanics as surrogate family, but explicitly noted to being the reason why most people in the fmaverse stick to regular prosthetics along with the painful surgery)
So Ed canât actually do everything perfectly and experiences a lot of extra hassle, problems and pain people without automail donât have to deal with! And any advantages he does have are more suited to fighting than day to day life (being able to incorporate weapons/fake out people who want to blow up his arm).Â
Arakawa did her research and thought it through. Automail is by no means a magic cure that solves all problems associated with losing a limb.
Disability isnât defined byâ struggleâ or suffering. Having a useful prosthetic doesnât make them not disabled. Get the fuck out of here with that.Â
Cyborg is a superhero who lost so much of his body that he became a cyborg. He suffers from the pain of it and the emotional toll but he is a superhero because of it.
Roy Harper lost his arm and the end is corrupted causing him pain and the prosthetic is imperfect and if put on wrong causes even more pain. He is still an archer.
Jessica Cruz has debilitating anxiety and PTSS to the point that she was too afraid to leave her house for three years until a macguffin gave her no choice in the matter. She is a green lantern, the superheroes chosen for their extraordinary will power.
Oracle or Barbara Gordon, lost the use of her legs after being attacked by the joker and then went on to be the most connected and most trusted member of the entire justice league. (See here, the titans being asked who leads the justice league as proof that they donât need a leader, and them all offering different options before Lian, Royâs daughter, pipes up with âOwacleâ as the leader of the justice league.)
Daredevil who is very blind.
Clint Barton, ie Hawkeye, who is deaf.
Bucky Barnes who is missing an arm.
Charles Xavier who is paraplegic.
Jericho who is mute.
Captain Marvel Jr. who needs crutches.
Eddie McDonough or Hornet who has cerebral palsy.
Doctor Strange who lost a significant portion of his fine motor control on his hands.
Misty Knight, missing an arm.
Nick Fury, blind in one eye.
Cable, missing an arm and an eye.
And this is just scratching the surface. Not all who suffer are disabled and not all disabled suffer. Some of these people only become heroes because of their disabilities and it doesnât stop them from being incredible characters that the audience cares for.
My favourite disabled hero- My mom. Blind. Itâs inconvenient for her, and itâs a pain to get places because of the no license, but she regularly volunteers and does pretty much anything else she wants to do.
Digital realism practice I made a few weeks ago on an online class thanks to @wacom and @aleexboyd
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She had third degree burns on her genitals, needed a skin graft to repair the damage and was permanently disfigured, and left disabled for two years. Part of her original $20,000 claim was for her daughterâs lost income while she cared for her. Also, there were 700 previous complaints of people being burned by McDonaldâs coffee, which they quietly paid off. They offered Liebeck $800.
Stella Liebeck was 79 years old at the time of the incident, and the settlement helped her pay for a live-in nurse as she was partially disabled for two full years after being so badly burned she went into shock. She passed away in 2004 with little to no quality of life per her own daughter. She originally sought $20,000 dollars to cover her eight day hospital stay (including skin graphs) and compensation for her daughterâs lost wages after she spent three weeks providing round-the-clock care.
Incidently, liquids served at 190 degrees is capable of causing third degree burnsâwhich cause severe, permanent damage all the way to the muscle layerâwithin 3 seconds of contact with human skin. If you have a strong stomach, you can even find photographic evidence of her wounds with a quick google search. This didnât stop almost every major news outlet perpetuating MacDonaldâs coordinated smear campaign against her. MacDonaldsâ justification for this was basically, well, all fast food is hot and we have better things to worry about. Literally. This deliberately manufactured overly litigious gold digger stereotype is still remembered today via the Stella Awards, which mocks all the âfrivolousâ lawsuits against your favorite brands. Named after a little old lady who was permanently disfigured and handicapped from a ridiculously dangerous product.
Classy.
Never, ever take a corporationâs side over aprivate citizen when lawsuits are involved.
She eventually died under the care of a live-in nurse from infection complications due to the fact that the damage had to be treated repeatedly over multiple years. While being mocked *worldwide* and constantly hassled by the media. The last few years of this womanâs life were a miserable hell because McDonaldâs was too cheap to pay her medical costs when she asked.
Not just thatâthe last few years of her life were miserable because McDonaldâs was too cheap to throw away old coffee.Â
Also read Fake Law by the Secret Barrister. Itâs primarily concerned with the UK legal system, but this story appears in it for all the above reasons - the entire point of the book is teaching people the truth behind the sensationalist headlines, and why those headlines exist in the first place (pssssst itâs governments and corporations manipulating the public to believe things are being blown out of proportion and/or the people involved are stupid or greedy)
hey! SOC/S&B fanartists! know your worth and do NOT participate in this contest. a year of netflix is not payment enough for a piece that will make netflix 1000x that. they literally are demanding the right to not only NOT credit your art, but to remove any credit that you put on the image. i love six of crows with my whole heart but iâm honestly incredibly disappointed
