I remember taking a linguistics course as an undergrad. The instructor was the English Department Chair for the university. One day he wrote the word "probably" on the board and then went on to ask the class for the different pronounciations of the word such as "problee", "prally", etc. One of my classmates stated that those were "uneducated, incorrect pronouciations. The professor corrected my classmate and stated that linguistically, as long as the meaning of the word is transmitted, pronounciation is a non-issue. I loved learning that. I think of it often when I hear something pronounced dialectically.
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The Definition of Dialect
by Ariell ina regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary, especially a variety of speech differing from the standard literary language or speech pattern of the culture in which it exists: cockney is a dialect of english.
this is one of the definitions for dialect that i found at dictionary.com.
i think ebonics fits the profile of this definition.
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I sent a letter to the WT Branch Office in the Netherlands about the UN
by avengers ini wrote a letter to the branch office here in answer to their un proclamation.. the one i wrote in dutch i have already sent, but for your pleasure and leisure and fun.
i have translated it from dutch into english so that you "normal" folks can read it.
hahahaha.
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Bravo avengers! Makes me want to write a letter of my own telling them that they aren't deceiving anyone but themselves. I am weighing the options. Perhaps being disfellowshipped for standing up to their bully-dom isn't such a bad thing...
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JW's and Funerals..... your thoughts please, including current JW's
by bull01lay ina morbid topic i know, but one that has played on my mind since i was df'd.. my mum is still a very devout witness.
if anything happened to her, what would the witness position be on my attending the funeral ?.
i know she would (quite rightly)expect a service at the kingdom hall.
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Oops, I meant to also say I was disfellowshipped when during the event described above.
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JW's and Funerals..... your thoughts please, including current JW's
by bull01lay ina morbid topic i know, but one that has played on my mind since i was df'd.. my mum is still a very devout witness.
if anything happened to her, what would the witness position be on my attending the funeral ?.
i know she would (quite rightly)expect a service at the kingdom hall.
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If they didn't allow you it would be total BS. When I was 15, my eldest brother was stabbed 32 times. Because of the blood issue, he came very close to death. The elders "suspended" the rules at the hospital and acknowledged my presence (how magnanimous!). If I were you, I wouldn't let anyone stand in the way of attending the funeral, but I have a rep as a total beeeyotch (can I say that here?). Stand tall! No one has the right to get in the way of your closure.
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Higher Education
by eiu2003 inwell, let's try posting a topic.
one of the things i felt i missed out on while i was a witness, other than wild sex when young is higher education.
i quit hs to pioneer and now have just recently finished a college degree and am still working on my masters, but i find myself resenting that i have had to do this all at night and while in my forties.
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BTW, the only reason I make reference to the WT reader's mistakes is that I would think a group of people that claim to know so much about false religion would at least be able to pronounce the names of said religions...
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Higher Education
by eiu2003 inwell, let's try posting a topic.
one of the things i felt i missed out on while i was a witness, other than wild sex when young is higher education.
i quit hs to pioneer and now have just recently finished a college degree and am still working on my masters, but i find myself resenting that i have had to do this all at night and while in my forties.
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Yes, resentment is an understatement - even though I went against the grain and went to college anyway. This was about 10 years ago. I was treated like a complete pariah for doing so. I completed my MBA last year. While I was in grad school I attended a Sunday meeting to hear my brother give the public talk (a familial courtesy). During the WT study I couldn't help but notice that the reader was fairly illiterate. One of the paragraphs he read made reference to Sikhism and Taoism which he pronounced SILK-ism and Tay-O-ism. It became even funnier when people answered the questions and repeated his mispronounciations. But the capper was when the WT conductor, a person on parole for homicide (however, I do have to say, he's a teddy bear now), made reference to the fact that he noticed that the more educated people became the more arrogant they were. Hmmm, new math equation X education = Y arrogance. Whatever. After the meeting I approached him and explained that I was finishing my Masters degree and was wondering what kind of person that made me. He became VERY quiet and red faced. I guess the organization can add educated individuals to the long list of people against whom it discriminates.
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What Couldn't You Do on Meeting Nights?
by Nosferatu init's funny how new rules were made in the house that applied to meeting nights only.
one major one was no video games before the meeting.
my mother also tried to extinguish worldly music before meetings.
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My mother was a pioneer and had the keys to the KH. She used that as an excuse to be at the meeting 45 minutes to an hour early. Really, she just didn't want to deal with my father, so she would leave as early as possible. It completely sucked being there before anyone else. She would start hounding me about getting ready almost immediately after I got home from school. I loved it when I turned 16 and got a job at the local McDonald's. I would deliberately get shifts scheduled on meeting nights. I do have a couple of good memories though. My mother would stop off at the nearby liquor store before the meetings and load up on hard candy. I swear we would eat 10 rolls of life savers (mmmm cinnamon) per meeting. Afterwards, we would try to get home before 20/20 or Cheers came on and I would make home made tortilla chips and salsa. And NO, I don't weigh 400 pounds, but I should ;-)
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In one word...
by mojobeans inwas wondering.
in one word, how would you all describe your experience/s in leaving the club?
mine would have to be cathartic
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epiphanic
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I didn't realize how much it had affected me...
by Aztec in.
the witnesses have infiltrated!
anyway, love ya all!.
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I hear ya. Sounds like one of my mother's favorites. When she found out I had decided to pursue a graduate degree (wasn't the undergrad degree sufficiently blasphemous?) her remark was: "Well, I suppose if you want to polish the brass on a sinking ship...". So supportive. Why is it our parents feel compelled to parrot everything they hear at the KH? arrgghhh
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FDS Sends Convention Delegates Packin'
by ezekiel3 injehovah's witness across north america are being sternly counseled at this week's service meeting that they should pack lunches during the 2004 dictrict convention instead of leaving the site to eat elsewere or return with food.
in a letter read during the announcements, members are told this is a "serious problem".
reportedly jws have been banned from some convention locations because the venues want concession stand business if jws insist on bringing carry-out meals into the facility.
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PeaNUT
Newspapers on the mirrors? I have never heard of this. That is so far over the top I can't even begin to fathom... I, for one, would remove said newspaper and gleefully re-apply all of my makeup from start to finish.