• havokdj@lemmy.world
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      You only worked for a LORD for 150 days of the year.

      You still had to provide for yourself from scratch outside of that. Work today may be shit, but it wasn’t that shit.

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        Also, there was 3-4 months where nothing grew.

        So it was normal to work everyday, all-day, for long stretches, and then do little in the winter other than try and stay warm.

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          Winter was still spent productively. Hunting/trapping/fishing/livestock all need handling. Farm land needs preparing, wood needs to get chopped. It was also a time to create & repair tools and housing or work on side hustles such as processing raw materials in a low level artisanal way ( e.g. weaving / fabric spinning ).

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            Well, I really want to try AND blow up the planet because…

            “we regularly demand of people that they suppress or deny the most effective way they have of situating themselves socially in the world”—their language (Lippi-Green 2011, p. 63). Institutional function often depends on a particular set of beliefs about how language, especially the standard language, works. Lippi-Green and others refer to this set of beliefs as the standard language ideology, defined as “a bias toward an abstracted, idealized, homogeneous spoken language which is imposed and maintained by dominant bloc institutions and which names as its model the written language, but which is drawn primarily from the spoken language of the upper middle class” (Lippi-Green 2011, p. 64; see also Agha 2007).

            https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-011659

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                That’s fine. As long as language is living and evolving there will be people sitting on their porches shaking their canes at it and yelling about how it was “better in my day!” Some people are this way because they haven’t yet been made aware that it’s racist, classist and elitist. Some people embrace that.

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                    You knew exactly what the person meant who said “try and.” There was no issue of effective communication. You had a problem that they were, in causal, online forum, written speech, not using the preferred phrasing of upper middle class white people.

                    Plenty of authors and editors have gotten the memo on this issue. It’s ok that you’re holding on to the past, it is the way of things.