A T'Sou-ke councillor is calling out a comment by a South Island Conservative candidate, though he argues the clip was him "inartfully explaining" historical context.
Canada having indigenous languages as official ones would protect us against imperial powers since it would be harder for the elites to understand what we’re thinking.
Having Indigenous languages as official also helps underscore in monument that all art is translation and all translation is always fundamentally a lie, which is why the act of becoming skilled in translation is a process of learning to listen and knowing how to best twist the lies you make into the most harmless/loving approximation of the truth.
This idea that translation is a general problem of logic to be solved with algorithm, computer, beaucracy or AI is supremely dangerous and it is just fascism defined with the narrow terms of language.
Yes of course, could it accurately be described as representative of their language anymore if the agency is taken from them in the processing of recording it? Can we even know what the language is now not at some historical period in the past if we do not empower the native speakers of the language to flourish?
…and further if we ignore the language of the old and sick by retracting basic healthcare from them and casting them aside than we lose our capacity to sense mortality, age and sickness through language, if only the “healthy” decide what is recorded or said we know very little and in many cases what we do end up “knowing” is worse than knowing nothing at all… certainly we become weak in the exact way we projected onto those suffering… but here I am again falling unintentionally into confessing how much I love The Magic Mountain.
Canada having indigenous languages as official ones would protect us against imperial powers since it would be harder for the elites to understand what we’re thinking.
Having Indigenous languages as official also helps underscore in monument that all art is translation and all translation is always fundamentally a lie, which is why the act of becoming skilled in translation is a process of learning to listen and knowing how to best twist the lies you make into the most harmless/loving approximation of the truth.
This idea that translation is a general problem of logic to be solved with algorithm, computer, beaucracy or AI is supremely dangerous and it is just fascism defined with the narrow terms of language.
Obviously First Nations should be the ones writing signage, books and documents in their own languages.
Yes of course, could it accurately be described as representative of their language anymore if the agency is taken from them in the processing of recording it? Can we even know what the language is now not at some historical period in the past if we do not empower the native speakers of the language to flourish?
Language is a living thing!
That is why it’s so crucial for elders to get decent healthcare so they can teach the young.
…and further if we ignore the language of the old and sick by retracting basic healthcare from them and casting them aside than we lose our capacity to sense mortality, age and sickness through language, if only the “healthy” decide what is recorded or said we know very little and in many cases what we do end up “knowing” is worse than knowing nothing at all… certainly we become weak in the exact way we projected onto those suffering… but here I am again falling unintentionally into confessing how much I love The Magic Mountain.
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