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16.5.03
 

Iraq: Law and order and NATO


Phil Carter has written an interesting post about how to restore law and order in Iraq. I wa sparticularly struck by his proposal to use NATO. Without sarcasm, which countries? France isn't allowed there due to its undermining of the American position. Germany has turned down the Polish request; however, the Germans might reverse their refusal after the next election.
Canada has already decided to go to Afganistan. Spain has sent a few Guardia Civil police and some soldiers from the non-combat branches. I'm sure more Spanish soldiers would be happy to lend a hand. Portugal and Italy are 2 more. The Eastern Europeans are there but the troop committments along with Kosvo and Afghanistan contingents are stretching their resources.
This is a tough call for the Americans and brings to light the alienation on both sides of the Atlantic complicate psot war reconstruction and democratization.

Màtrix recargada: ¿bono o no?


Com gairebé tothom, espera amb curiositat a veure la seqüela de Màtrix. Molta gens en parla, estudia, critica a través les bitàcornes i altre sitis. Ara bé fantic no en sóc pas; només estic curiós si aquest película serà tan bona com la primera o no. Algun dia quan tingui un lector DVD m'agradaria veure la trilògia amb més calma.

Dowry abuse: the revenge of the real feminists


I came across a really neat story in my local paper (no link) about Nisha Sharman. Her act may just bring about a long neglected chnage in India: the enforcement of the anti-dowry payments. Nisha was betrothed to some guy that her dad found in a newspaper. Just before the cermony the the future family in law supposedly demanded the Shamin's dad the equivalent of 34 000$ Canadian.

Well you can imagine that the dad pleaded not to be shaken down any more and to be content with the dowry all ready provided: new car and 2 sets of everything. One for the husband; the other for the brother. I marvel at how the dad managed to pull this off given his modest financial situation. In any case, when he couldnm,T give them the money they demanded, that's when they began to humilate him. There was even a video of the behaviour. Nisah called the cops and they busted the ex-fiancé just before the wedding. He's charged.


Nisah is one gutsy lady because the payment of the dowry in India (always the bride's family) is so open with abuse that the brides are killed or maimed by the in laws when her family can't provide the ever escalating demands. The situation is a permenant shakedown. What's significant is how this revolutionary act of defiance didn't about because Western feminist groups pressuered the Indian government to enforce the law on the books (though to be fair there are some feminists and Western women's advocate groups that do invigilate the situation there) but because one local women was fed up at the humilation. Perhaps that Nisha's most important contribution: that the people themselves have to want to obey the law as well as do the right thing.

 
14.5.03
 

De l'attentant en Arabie Saoudite et la tolérance


Hier, on a eu les nouvelles des attentants en Arabie Saoudite qui ont laissés un vigntaine des morts et une centaines de blessés nous rappelle que la guerre du terrorisme n'a pas terminé de tout. Ceu qi m'outre beaucoup c'est comment nos gouvernements sont une peu lâches à ne pas dénoncer de façon privées pendant des annéees la discrimination que les occidentaux subit chaque jour

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Je ne vois pas pas pourquoi on tolérait le fait que pendant 20 années on a fermé les yeux à la propagande anti-occidentale aue les imams et les écoles réligieueses prônaient- et prônent encore. En plus, le régime insultent tous les non-musulmans. Il les interdit qu'ils practique leurs rites même dans l'intimité de leur maisions. Que les non-musulmans ne peuvent même pas porter avec eux leurs livres sacrés.


Contraste tout ça avec ceci Donc quoi faire? Premièrement, que les gouvernemnts occidentaux pressionnent le régime à commencer à respecter les différences religieuses. Le Vatican peut aussi jouer un rôle. Deuxièmement, d'enquêter les liens entre les notables de la société et leurs liens avec le terrorisme. Troisèment, 'sapper' cette haine par notre exemple de tolérance ainsi comment vivre sous un état de droit.



English and French: more intertwined than computer cables


Zipping through Gietner's blog, I came across this tidbit I can attest to how intertwined both languages are. My Francophones students are quite surprised to learn that of such doublets as pig and pork. I point out to them that pig is when the animal is alive; pork is when it on the table. French and the Romance don't distinguish that neatly. Porc and the cognates refers to both the living animal and that tasty slab of bacon. I also tell them that Chaucher's English is tough to read though you can begin to make out the spelling of some modern English words. I can't read Chaucher but I can read his Catalan contemporary- Johonot Martorell's classic Tirant lo Blanch. That's becuse from Chaucer to Sheakespeare there's Caxton. Caxton modernized English spelling but ironically froze it just at moment English was in linguistic transition. Unlike the other European languages which modernized the spelling through the printing press; English didn't.
 
12.5.03
 

Californian craziness: banning Oreo cookis to school kids


Once again, we have an illustration of state acting stupidly and California leads the way. Surely the California Attorney general has far more important legal matters to attend to then banning Oreo cookies to school children. I resent this prepotent attitude whereby the state is preseumed to be smarter than the parents. It's not; criminalizing food and bad dietary habits isn't the state's business. Think about it law enforcement will soon be tasked with cracking down on Oreo shipments coming to California.

If we didn't read it in a legit paper, you'd think the Onion published this article



A blog for tongue lovers: Armitas


I've been remiss in not plugging Armarativi I came across this blog via Cindererall Bloggerfeller
What an amateur linguist's wet dream! As someone who's fascinated by Proto-Indoeuropean/Indoeuropean languages, this is a great site to learn about Sanskrit and how it relates to the other Indoeuropean languages. I had no idea that Sanskrit has influenced Thai. Though I admit that I'm unsure how. I wonder if the Thai script is derived from the Vedic?
In any case, I highly recommend visiting the site because I find the way he weaves social commentery through philology not only original but very educational.
 
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