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| Zwlth Super Polyglot Senior Member United States Joined 5161 days ago 154 posts - 320 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese, Latin, French, Persian, Greek | Message 17 of 29 07 August 2011 at 6:21am | IP Logged |
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I'm a great advocate of using audio-books for foreign language study and have long done so in my own way. I'd be eager to participate in discussions about L-R save for one thing: the fact that we're not allowed to know the gender of its primary theoretician. What's with this quirky s/he business? How irksome and awkward to read and write and refer to! Why the mystery? Is it a hermaphrodite?
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| watupboy101 Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4838 days ago 65 posts - 81 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 18 of 29 07 August 2011 at 6:24am | IP Logged |
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Why would s/he bother to post his/her gender? Is it really relevant? Please do not trash my thread with something like this.
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| Zwlth Super Polyglot Senior Member United States Joined 5161 days ago 154 posts - 320 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese, Latin, French, Persian, Greek | Message 19 of 29 07 August 2011 at 6:36am | IP Logged |
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Yes, it is relevant as it is a very worthwhile topic to discuss. Everywhere else in the world and on this forum we refer to people in English as he or she. This is the only case of deliberately mystifying that basic fact, which makes it unnecessarily awkward to write about the technique. It's hard to take seriously a sentence saying "s/he says..." when we are writing about a known individual. We only do that when we are trying our very hardest to be politically correct and inclusive about unknown individuals or people in general.
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| watupboy101 Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4838 days ago 65 posts - 81 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 20 of 29 07 August 2011 at 6:40am | IP Logged |
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If you worry about it that much please message him/her other than please stop posting here unless you have something relevant to the topic discussion. I am sorry for sounding like a butt but I don't want my thread being littered by this. No hurt feelings?
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| Zwlth Super Polyglot Senior Member United States Joined 5161 days ago 154 posts - 320 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese, Latin, French, Persian, Greek | Message 21 of 29 07 August 2011 at 6:50am | IP Logged |
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No, hurt feelings! This is a public forum, not "your" thread!
The whole reason I started posting here is because I do have a great deal that is very relevant to the topic under discussion, but I won't do so under ridiculous circumstances, such as referring to someone as s/he over a five year period. And, I can't message "it" because "it" has long since been banned from this forum under every single guise under which "it" repeatedly appeared since, apart from contributing this valuable technique, "it" was incredibly and hatefully aggressive in personally attacking other forum members. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| watupboy101 Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4838 days ago 65 posts - 81 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 22 of 29 07 August 2011 at 6:54am | IP Logged |
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OH?! I was unaware "it" was banned. Well looks like we'll just refer to her as "it" from now on... isn't that unfortunate. And you have a point it is a public forum... sorry for that.
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 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6314 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 23 of 29 07 August 2011 at 9:47am | IP Logged |
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Let's not derail the thread any further. As fascinating as it may seem to some, it's not really relevant to L-R.
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| watupboy101 Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4838 days ago 65 posts - 81 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 24 of 29 08 August 2011 at 7:07am | IP Logged |
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I have another question about L-R. When I'm doing this I seem to remember the story in English, if you know what I
mean. Should I be remembering it in French? And also, when I'm reading I don't seem to hear the verbs very well I mostly hear a lot of nouns... the verbs seem to be slurred a bit (this might have to do with the literary tenses). Will all of this get better with time as I keep working on this method? I'll try to do as many hours a day as I can but right now I'm doing about 1.5 hours a day... I feel I am making good progress though, and I plan to go over the book a few times and I'll see if that helps also another time through the book should I use the French as my text instead of the English? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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