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This week, we have even MORE technical difficulties, and decide it’s just simpler to kill of the William character. Kidding! But next week, we’re going to have a workaround of some sort. In the meantime, we do another episode of LokiWatch(tm), talk language, laughter, and brands. Enjoy!
QUESTIONS:
Is there a language other than English that you wish you could speak fluently? –Stu
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Hah! I don’t know about the Thieves’ language Tony was talking about, but my parents routinely used Carny to disguise what they were saying around the kids until we figured it out (which wasn’t very hard; it’s like pig-latin). And then there was slang used in the family that was sometimes confusing ’cause I didn’t know other people didn’t use it. Like the word “donniker” to refer to the toilet. And some words that meant different things, but they weren’t generally confusing ’cause of context, like the words “butcher” and “joint” (a butcher being someone on the show who’s trying to sell you something, and a “joint” being the place the butcher is working out of). Oh, and “jackpots” is one that came up frequently–meaning stories about things that happened on the show, usually embellished. My parents used to joke about whether my Mom was going to be expected to do the “Chinese”–which means to do a lot of extra work with no pay, and a joke on the fact that she is half-Chinese and that this generally describes what a traditional wife’s function is anyway.
Just remembering my father saying that he and some friend had stayed up late “cutting up jackpots.”
That’s what we should have called the podcast.
See, this is why I don’t even TRY and filter myself when saying outlandish things about Jas’s background. To date, I have NEVER managed to come up with something that wasn’t overshadowed by the truth. 🙂
Transracial vs. Transgender
I’m pretty sure I had a conversation with Will about Rachel Dolezal when her story was in the news years ago…
But anyway, there are several good articles about this. I’ll give info about one here (but not the link since that seems to affect posting): “Why We Shouldn’t Compare Transracial to Transgender Identity” by Robin Dembroff & Dee Payton.
The core of the argument is that generally the effects of racism like wealth inequality and health outcomes accumulate intergenerationally while effects of gender inequality do not mainly do so because most households/families are multi-gendered across time. “This is not to say that gender inequality is ahistorical. To the contrary, gender inequality is rooted in historical and continuing manifestations of sexism and misogyny, from policies that economically exploit women and undermine their reproductive autonomy to social practices like sexual harassment and rape culture. Young girls inherit the same sexism and misogyny that their mothers faced as young girls, regardless of whether they are transgender or cisgender. But importantly, all women inherit the historical accumulation of societal sexism. This marks a central difference between transgender-inclusive classification in the category “woman” and transracial-inclusive classification in the category “Black.” While transracial individuals like Krug and Diallo eschew much of the weight of anti-Black oppression and white supremacy, trans women and cis women alike are burdened by the legacy of patriarchy.” (Krug and Diallo are the names of two people who were identifying as transracial. Rachel Dolezal changed her name to Diallo.)
Oh yeah, we did talk about Dolezal.
But I wasn’t thinking of people like her in the transracial category, though you’re right that I should have. I was thinking of a white British guy I saw in the news who had plastic surgery to make himself look more Korean. Somehow, this piece of news sort of eclipsed in my brain Dolezal and others who aren’t surgically altering themselves to portray a different ethnic group.
Oh, interesting! This makes a lot of sense.
I was thinking of Dolezal during our talk, and almost brought her up a few times. To my mind, there’s no use in distinguishing the lengths someone goes to transition themselves, regardless of race or gender.
I’ma look into this article, though. This is a useful perspective! Thanks, Jas!
I’m learning Latin on Duolingo, which is probably only slightly more useful than Klingon. I’ve been at it for about 18 months and the only day I missed was during the derecho when we didn’t have power or internet-current streak: 325 days
To me, that’s similar to Klingon, in that it’s super-useful if you have a contextual use for it, but not at all if you don’t.
Though thinking about it, the contextual uses for Latin are probably much broader than Klingon, and outside of that, it’s a helpful linguistic tool, probably, for parsing out unfamiliar words (if they have a Latin root).
I could see myself studying Latin. But mostly just for writing funky spells and incantations. 🙂
And summoning demons.
Come to think of it, perhaps it’s a good thing that Tony doesn’t know Latin.
FUN FACT: Demons summoned through Pig Latin are just as effective as those summoned via traditional Latin!
…or so I have read.
Oof, I feel like evening jokingly suggesting that William said the n-word is a bit too much Tony. Especially when the lag is so bad that he can’t defend himself that well.
Ah, clearly you don’t have the body of experience that I have when it comes to mocking William. The BEST times to do it are when he can’t defend himself that well.
I call those “times when William is awake”. XD