In an op-ed article in dagens nyheter on January 12, claiming the language researcher Lars Melin of harassment from the språkaktivister raises uncertainty and creates a silence at the beach. People simply don’t dare to talk anymore if they are expected to say byggaktör in the place of the client or the funktionsvariation rather than a handicap.
Lars Melin argues that we should choose a new word in the place of the old one, because the old feel uncomfortable. However, he also believes that we are never going to find the word that is ”not contaminated by the reality of the world, they point out.” He writes: ”on the Contrary, you are in the last part of a chain of ordbyten: idiot, retarded, mentally retarded, mentally disabled, intellectually disabled, persons with mental disabilities, people with mental funktionsvariation. It will never end, therefore, that, in a word, not to gloss over either the reality or the feelings of that reality provokes.”
of course, you can get a little bit of fear, if we believe that it should be said is ”wrong”. However, we are on DHR thinks that the words are not significant, they may be positively or negatively charged, and that it is a reflection of the world we live in. Most of the people have to say and prefer ”person with an intellectual disability” rather than ”idiot”, because the latter is an insult to anyone who possesses a pure and utter stupidity – and is linked to a person’s character rather than in cognitive ability. It is natural, and not like the språkpoliserna has been imputed to us.
similarly, we say a wheelchair user instead of confined to a wheelchair, since the latter gives the impression of a time gone by, when people with disabilities are often forced into a passive life, locked up in their homes. Today’s society is different, and most people are able to live a much freer life. As to the use of the word is confined to a wheelchair, today, would be both inaccurate and out of date.
when they describe someone as, for example, use of a wheelchair. This is because of the existence of life as a wheelchair, according to him, is supposed to be so ”nasty”. But, perhaps, the word funktionsvariation is not considered to be adversely affected in the future, as White predicts. Or, maybe, there will be new concepts, such as those with a norm-breaking functionality, and become more objective descriptions of something that can make your life both hard and light, good and evil, and that, in itself, does not define who we are as human beings.
communicate, don’t have to be complicated and difficult. We believe, instead, that there may be a lot simple for the use of the term to which the person/group is preferred. If you are unsure about something, ask. We are looking forward to more discussion on the topic.
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