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Thread #121939   Message #2707132
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
24-Aug-09 - 05:42 AM
Thread Name: The re-Imagined Village
Subject: RE: The re-Imagined Village
It is you, S., not I who called a recorder made in Japan an "Engrish frute"

It was the saintly Don Firth who coined that one, WAV - in respect of the supreme irony of you calling your mass-produced Japanese-made plastic recorder an English Flute. Engrish is a linguistic phenomenon which celebrates the grammatical incongruities consequent upon Japanese attempts at translating their language into English. There are several books on the subject (at least one of which I own) and websites too, such as http://www.engrish.com/.   

and said he has friends who tell "racist jokes" at the pub.

If people let slip a few less-than PC remarks down at my local (see HERE for a recent example - and be sure pay special attention to my post of 10 Aug 09 - 10:20 AM) then that's by way of human frailty and colloquial waywardness. They don't go out of their way to publish and promote a vile racist ideology as you do. Far worse than any racist joke I've ever heard: England was a more English place 50 years ago. You said that, WAV - even worse, you believe it to be true.

And it is I not you who has enjoyed travelling, on a shoe-string, through about 40 countries

They say travel broadens the mind - so where did we go wrong with you I wonder?

and who achieved distinctions for anthropology at university.

And yet you persist in an anti-anthropological approach to cultural process by insisting human culture is regulated by a higher authority which you alone are privy to. Anthropology is the study and understanding of human culture, not the dictation and suppression of it. In all your posts here you would dictate and suppress the way people do things; in your published work likewise. What the hell school of anthropology is this? One that insists on mass compliance to an absolute cultural law along the lines of racial segregation and regulation... Now what what does that remind you of I wonder?

If you keep posting those false and defamatory remarks, I have to defend myself with such facts.

Nothing false in what I say, WAV as anyone reading your insane MESSAGES would conclude. Like I say, only a Racist and a Fascist would write such things; only a Racist and a Fascist would relentlessly promote them as a good way forward for humanity.

I note you never answer the points that are raised against you. You write English culture is taking a hammering and when people lose their culture society suffers, but you never explain how, or why, you just trot it out as being a self-evident absolute, which of course it isn't. So tell us, WAV - how is English culture taking a hammering? And in what way is society suffering as a result? What qualifies you to make such inhumane remarks, let alone publish them? And do you ever worry that if some racist thug read such inflammatory words they might then go out and act upon them? What then, WAV? You promote and advocate human suffering in the name of a highly idiosyncratic set of racially divisive ideological absolutes and yet you flinch at being called a Fascist and a Racist.

Try sticking to the argument.

Sorry, WAV - this is the argument.

The re-Imagined Village is a place where you might purge yourself of your absurd and alien misconceptions of English Culture and actually learn about the way things really are, rather than the way you want them to be. Think of it as purgatory - a place to listen and learn, to be cleansed of your vile conclusions which are in any case wholly and completely WRONG.

But please note: not once have I insulted you personally - on the contrary, I've supported you when things have turned personal on other threads. I respect you but question your ideology. Now, if you can, please answer the above points without resorting to further personal insults.