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| TheBiscuit Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 5923 days ago 532 posts - 619 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Italian Studies: German, Croatian | Message 25 of 64 30 April 2009 at 7:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Calling it Mexican Flu is just ignorant, please don't propagate the use of it. I live in one of the worst hit areas in Mexico, everything is closed, it's like doomsday when you go out. Yes, patient zero was here but this is not the first outbreak of swine flu. Naming it after a country/continent is dumb on every level.
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| Olekander Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5883 days ago 122 posts - 136 votes Speaks: English*, French, Russian | Message 26 of 64 30 April 2009 at 7:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| Olekander Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5883 days ago 122 posts - 136 votes Speaks: English*, French, Russian | Message 27 of 64 30 April 2009 at 7:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
Political correctness is very awkward, just use the word "their" in this case, that is genderless, God forbid the use of just "his". Edited by Olekander on 30 April 2009 at 10:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jar-ptitsa Triglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5898 days ago 980 posts - 1006 votes Speaks: French*, Dutch, German | Message 28 of 64 30 April 2009 at 10:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
No, not ignorant, but how flu was named during the history of this virus: the country of the begin. In your opinion, Mexican Flu is ignorant, but Spanish Flu not or Asian Flu? No, this outbreak of swine Flu is not the first, of course not. the outbreak of Spanish Flu in 1918 was not the first outbreak of bird flu also. Tell the ducth and flemish governments that it's dumb on every level: they officially named it "Mexicaanse Griep". bad luck. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Olekander Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5883 days ago 122 posts - 136 votes Speaks: English*, French, Russian | Message 29 of 64 30 April 2009 at 10:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Yeah it is known in English as "spanish influenza". Not sure why though.
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| Jar-ptitsa Triglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5898 days ago 980 posts - 1006 votes Speaks: French*, Dutch, German | Message 30 of 64 30 April 2009 at 10:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
i don't understand what's polictical correctness to see with my post. i thought that "their" refer plural, but I meaned one outbreak of flu and the name of one person: a man's name for exmaple James, or a woman's name for example Jane. Sometimes those hurricanes have a male, or sometimes female name therefore I wrote her/his because if i had not, it would seem I suggest a male OR female name. I don't udnerstand "God forbid the use of just "his"" (?) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Russianbear Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6775 days ago 358 posts - 422 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Ukrainian Studies: Spanish | Message 31 of 64 30 April 2009 at 10:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I think Olekander wanted to say the "his/her" construction tends to be awkward-sounding. Instead of saying "nobody would want his/her name to be used", you can say "nobody would want their name to be used".
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| Olekander Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5883 days ago 122 posts - 136 votes Speaks: English*, French, Russian | Message 32 of 64 30 April 2009 at 10:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Desolé c'etait d'anglais tres "courant", c'est que que j'en ai marre du politiquement correct, ce qui est souvent employé actuellement dans ce pays. Si tu veux parler d'un tempete, il faut comme meme utiliser "it's" parce'il n'a pas de genre.
Je veux pas que tu comprennes ce que je t'ai ecrit en fait. C'etait un acces de colere, je m'excuse. Edited by Olekander on 30 April 2009 at 10:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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