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C-Woche
Die letze Woche war – kulinarisch gesehen – eher eine C-Woche. Das war primär nicht als Qualitätsstufe gedacht, stimmt aber trotzdem. Eigentlich war an Convenience-Woche gedacht, aber da gehen die beiden C’s ja Hand in Hand miteinander. Außerdem kam noch ein drittes C (fast) dazu. Nachdem in meiner persönlichen Nähe mittlerweile der zweite Mensch nach Kontakt mit mir coronapositiv wurde (meint: nicht bei mir angesteckt, aber wohl schon infiziert, als Kontakt mit mir, aber noch ohne Symptome und damit bis dato unerkannt), ist meine Nasenschleimhaut vom andauernden Testen so abgerubbelt, ich wundere mich, dass die Stäbchen noch Testmaterial finden. Aber, nachdem es letztes Wochenende massiven Hühnersuppeneinsatz und am Montag die Doppelimpfung gab (C+G) kann mir keiner mehr was. 😉
Zurück zum C im Essen. Es gab etwas, was unter den ständigen Reihen “Eigentlich war es anders geplant” und “Das musste endlich mal verbraucht werden” sowie “Das hatte ich länger schon mal vor” stand. Im Vorratsschrank oxidierte seit einiger Zeit ein Glas “Pilzsoße” eines bekannten Kartoffelsalatverunstalters vor sich hin, dass einen dringenden Verbrauch anmahnte, und so erwarb ich etwas durchwachsenen Speck und eine Packung brauner Champignons für die Begleitung. Danach las ich, dass die Soße eigentlich für die Beigabe von Fleisch oder Gemüse gedacht war. Aber wer wird schon so engstirnig sein. Der Speck am klein geschnitten zum Auslassen in die Pfanne, dann die grob geschnittenen Pilze dazu, etwas Salz und Pfeffer, später etwas Knoblauch und Zwiebel. Nach alles in der Pfanne ein wenig angegangen war, machte ich den großen Fehler bei diesem Gericht: Ich griff zum Glas mit der Pilzsoße. Hätte ich mal zum Schmand gegriffen, der sich auch im Kühlschrank befand.
Optisch kam das Ergebnis ganz gut daher. Es wurde ein Abendbrot, deswegen die Lichtstimmung auf dem Bild.
Ansonsten kann man sagen, dass die Soße allen pilzigen Geschmack aus dem Gericht rausgezogen und durch ein aromatisches Irgendwas ersetzt hat. Hätte ich mal den Schmand … Aber das hatten wir schon. Warum kauft man auch so’n Zeuch, wenn man doch auch selber kochen kann. Und selbst, wenn nicht. Was habe ich denn auch erwartet? Deren Kartoffelsalate schmecken ja auch nicht nach Kartoffeln (von den anderen “Feinkost”-Salaten ganz zu schweigen), warum sollte die Pilzsoße nach Pilzen schmecken?
Sonntagmittag
Dank der guten Erfahrungen mit Convenience gab es am Sonntag auch was Fertiges aus der Packung, dass nur aufgebacken werden musste: Lasagne. Diesmal mit Spinat und Ricotta als Füllung. Von einer Discounter-Hausmarke. Wobei ich die Recherche unterlassen habe, ob das Produkt evtl. von einer bekannten Markenfirma mit ähnlichem Angebot zum doppelten Preis angeboten wird. Selbst wenn, heißt das noch lange nicht, dass sich die Produkte auch noch gleichen. Meist bemerkt man bei einem Vergleich solcher Sachen doch Unterschiede, spätestens in der Qualität der Zutaten, u.U. auch im Rezept und beim Niveau der Qualitätskontrolle am Ende der Produktion.
Aber genug lamentiert. Die Lasagne kam in den Ofen und wurde nach Vorschrift auf der Packung zubereitet. Es war etwas schwierig, sie aus ihrer Alu-Schale zu befreien, ich habe mir aber alle Mühe gegeben. Schließlich wollte ich sie nicht dierekt daraus essen. Ein wenig Kultur am Sonntag darf auch sein.
Zugegeben, ein wenig verunfallt sieht das aus. Vor allem von der Seite.
Geschmacklich ging’s. Erst dachte ich, die “Bechamel” war ein wenig mehlkrisselig, aber es war die Spinat-Ricotta-Füllung, die ein Gefühl von modifizierter Stärke auf der Zunge hinterließ. Die Pasta war auch gut. Insgesamt hätte es ruhig etwas mehr Spinat sein können.
Da habe ich vom Pizzaservice schon schlechtere Lasagne mit höherem Anspruch gehabt. Nur, dass dessen Portionen mindestens doppelt so groß war. Bleibt das Fazit: Selber machen ist immer besser als Convenience und das, was einem heutzutage angeboten wird, ist ein guter Grund, kochen zu lernen.
#Bäh #Bauchspeck #Champignons #Convenience #Homann #Lasagne #Pilze #Ricotta #Soße #Spinat
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This is slowly driving me insane.
The promise of having a computer in your pocket is so close.
Modern #Smartphone has enough processing power to do most if not all basic tasks that people use computers for.
But #software for this is severely lacking. Especially on #OpenSource side, when you #DeGoogle your phone.
* bad external monitor support in #AOSP / #LineageOS
* #UserLAnd development halted
* #limboemu development haltedIt was going so well, but now suddenly no interest
What am I missing? -
@joergi @kuketzblog
So mache ich das auch. Seit über 10 Jahren nutze ich #fairphone
Das FP2 mit openandroid tut im Haus bei #HomeaAssistant noch gute Dienste, das FP4 ist mein Hauptgerät. Mit einem #refurbished #pixel 7 mach ich meine Tests zu #GraphenOS und bin auf einen guten Punkt. Dann wird das Pixel Haupthandy und das FP4 Testhandy mit #IodeOS. Vielleicht steige ich bei gutem Angebot auf pixel 8 oder auch 9 um.
Die sollten dann bis zu meinem 80. reichen, ob ich dann noch will oder in der Lage bin auf die folgenden Generationen umzusteigen, wird sich ergeben. #UnplugTrump -
I'm sharing this video here: it reports the full testimony if the youngest victim who survived to tell the world what they did to him.
Previoudly, he reported to FBI, DOJ but nobody did anything: like other victims he was legt alone, his name exposed.
The video is pretty long, but worth.listening to....
"THEY TOOK ME TO MURDER PARTIES": Epstein's Youngest Victim Speaks Out |...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BArXOllx6CE#Epsteinfiles
#Epsteincrimes
#testmony
#childabuse
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Stuttgart-Album zum Waldfriedhof: Wo die Großen ruhen: Späths Ehrengrab und die Geschichte des Waldfriedhofs – Stuttgart
Lothar Späth bekommt auf dem Waldfriedhof ein Ehrengrab. Über die Verlegung seiner Urne wird kontrovers diskutiert. Lothar …
#Stuttgart #Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Baden-Württemberg #Ehrengräber #Germany #LotharSpäth #Stuttgartfrüher #Stuttgart-Album #Textmanager #Waldfriedhof
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Stuttgart-Album zum Waldfriedhof: Wo die Großen ruhen: Späths Ehrengrab und die Geschichte des Waldfriedhofs
Lothar Späth kehrt zurück ins öffentliche Bewusstsein der Stadt – über seinen Tod hinaus. Der frühere Ministerpräsident von…
#Stuttgart #Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Baden-Württemberg #Ehrengräber #Germany #LotharSpäth #Stuttgartfrüher #Stuttgart-Album #Textmanager #Waldfriedhof
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I hope that #Reddit being down brings more attention and new users to #Lemmy
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A list of animals who
The recent death of the great Jane Goodall brought me back to an old post about the use of who-pronouns with non-human animals, as in ‘swallows who flew past her window’, as opposed to ‘swallows that/which flew past her window’.
Goodall’s first scientific paper was returned to her with who replaced by which, and he or she replaced by it, in reference to chimpanzees. Goodall promptly reinstated her choice of pronouns, presumably seeing them as markers of the animals’ intrinsic value, and their substitution as an unwarranted moral demotion.1
Since then I’ve made note of other examples of animals who that I’ve read in books.2 This post compiles them in one place, where they form a kind of homemade menagerie of zoolinguistic solidarity. It extends, as we have seen, to swallows:
She watched the sudden, fast shadows of swallows who flew past her window in fleeting pairs, subtracting light from her room, and marvelled how living things could suspend themselves in mid-air. (Claire Keegan, ‘Men and Women’, in Antarctica)
And, from the same writer, sheep:
I sit by the window and keep an eye on the sheep who stare, bewildered, from the car.
Ducks:
‘At the place [. . .] where timid ducks, who must have been through some experiences in the ugly little gravel pool of the never-completed excavation, flew away from me . . . (Werner Herzog, Every Man for Himself and God Against All)
Cows:
I do not care for animals, except for cows, who combine supreme usefulness with a rustic kind of beauty. (Maeve Kelly, ‘The Sentimentalist’, in Orange Horses)
Kingfishers and otters:
In now distant days Iris used to return to Steeple Aston or Hartley Road full of her visit to them, and of what they had told her about their Welsh cottage, a converted schoolhouse. They told her of the pool they had built in the field behind it, the kingfishers and otters who came to visit there. (John Bayley, Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch)
Rabbits:
Who was the more frightened between them? (Nicola Barker, Wide Open, when a woman is startled to meet a rabbit in a kitchen)
Tadpoles (first which, then who):
And we presented her with gallons of frogspawn which duly turned into tadpoles, which ate each other until there were just a few fat cannibal monsters left, all black belly and no sign of legs, who got poured down the sink. (Lorna Sage, Bad Blood)
Bonobos:
The researchers’ most spectacular success has been with Kanzi, a bonobo (a species closely related to chimpanzees) who apparently learned lexigrams spontaneously as an infant while watching his mother being trained. (Abby Kaplan, Women Talk More than Men: …And Other Myths about Language Explained)
Chimpanzees:
In the study by Hirata and Fuwa (2006), for example, chimpanzees who did not solicit other chimpanzees to engage in a group activity quite readily solicited a presumably more helpful human. (Michael Tomasello, Origins of Human Communication)
I make piles, like the chimp who thought he was a human. (Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking)
Foxes:
And I look out for the fox, the fox who dropped me a rat. (Baume again)
Aardwolves and aasvogels (that’s right, aardwolves and aasvogels):
The aardvark is a peculiar African mammal whose equally peculiar double-A name has earned it its prestigious position as the first animal in the dictionary. Spare a thought, then, for its alphabetical next-door neighbours, the aardwolf and aasvogel, who are pipped into second and third place . . . (Paul Anthony Jones, Word Drops)
Horses:
But still they did not stop the mare, who cantered gaily onward. (Mary Lavin, ‘The Joy-Ride’, in In a Café)
It’s not just stallions who can become aggressive if they’re raised alone. (Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson, Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behaviour)
Pigs:
The sides of the pen are solid, so the other pigs can’t reach their snouts inside and bite the tail or rear end of the pig who’s eating. (Grandin and Johnson again)
Animals generally:
All animals who live in groups – and that is most mammals – form dominance hierarchies. (Grandin and Johnson)
Consider, he [Michael Trestman] says, the category of animals who have complex active bodies. These are animals who can move quickly, and who can seize and manipulate objects. (Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life)
If it is a number of animals who are being chased, and if the pack succeeds in surrounding them, then their mass flight turns into a panic, each of the hunted animals will try to escape on its own from the circle of its enemies. (Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power, translated from the German by Carol Stewart)
Wolves:
Wolves vary their hunting techniques, share food with the old who so not hunt, and give gifts to each other. (Barry Lopez, Of Wolves and Men)
A wolf who remains with his or her parents and helps raise their next litter is an alloparent. (Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy’s When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals)
(Many different animals are treated thus in Moussaieff Masson and McCarthy’s book, but I neglected to keep track, aside from the example above.)
Dogs, of course, are often so honoured – the most frequently so of all the animals in Gilquin and Jacobs’s data set (footnote 1):
They could care less that I once had a dog named Woodsprite who was crushed by a backhoe. (George Saunders, ‘The 400-Pound CEO’, in CivilWarLand in Bad Decline)
The same thing applied to the first three time dogs, two of whom had actually been the favourites. (James Kelman, ‘A wide runner’, in Not Not While the Giro)
Most senses require two of things – eyes, ears, hands. But we only have one nose. This is, again, to stop us smelling dogs so much, who stink. (Philomena Cunk, Cunk on Everything: The Encyclopedia Philomena)
Molly Keane explicitly calls dogs people, in both The Rising Tide:
The only people to whom she was a little kind were her dogs and Diana.
and Loving and Giving:
The dogs loved him as he loved them. They flew to his beautiful whistle, even when on the hot line of a rabbit. Nettle, the Killer, a fierce opinionated person who would have been hero of a rat-pit had Silly Willie been sweeping chimneys, was, of the three, his favourite.
Nuala Ní Chonchúir, similarly, uses someone in reference to a dog in You:
Sinbad goes banana-boats when he sees you through the balcony door. [. . .] You kneel down on the rug and let him lick your nose with his smelly tongue. That’s how dogs kiss each other. Then you remember that they also lick each other’s bums, so you don’t let him do it any more. Still, at least someone’s glad to see you.
Even an ant can be ‘someone’:
Last week my little nephew said to his father: “Look, someone is walking under the table.” The father, thinking that his son had had a hallucination, looked under the table and saw – an ant! For the child, an ant was “someone.” I, too, have never doubted that I am one animal among others. (from ‘A Talk with Konrad Lorenz’, in In the Modern Idiom: An Introduction to Literature, ed. Leo Hamalian & Arthur Zeiger)
Rats:
The worst thing about rats, says Steve, ‘is waiting for that big wet slap on your back’. ‘No,’ says Kevin, ‘it’s knowing you’re being watched but not knowing who’s watching and from where.’ London’s sewer rats generally run away from humans. New York’s don’t. (Rose George, The Big Necessity: Adventures in the World of Human Waste)
If you thought rats were unexpected, try trees:
Mycorrhizal fungi have coevolved with trees, with whom they’ve worked out a mutually beneficial relationship in which they trade the products of their very different metabolisms. (Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma)
As soon as the bright sunlight increases the rate of photosynthesis and stimulates growth, the buds of those who have shot up receive more sugar. (The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben, translated from the German by Jane Billinghurst)
And rivers: I’ve yet to read Robert Macfarlane’s book Is a River Alive?, but I saw an excerpt that referred to meeting ‘a living, threatened river who flows from the roadless boreal forest to the sea’. These non-human, non-animal examples align with a movement to grant living systems legal rights – chiefly to protect them from destructive human action.
The menagerie could be greatly enlarged by adding examples from other sources: conversations, letters and emails, social media, the internet generally, language corpora, etc. But this thin slice is based solely on offline reading because that’s how I often pattern my notes.
Using who or personal pronouns is not something I do automatically when referring to animals. Sometimes which, that, or it seems more apt, or I could go either way, depending on context. In footnote 2 I instinctively used which in reference to sharks and decided to leave it be.
I’m sure my usage is inconsistent – it’s one of those grey areas in language that I find interesting. Maybe it’s something you’ve noticed in your own usage. In any case, it’s fun to see new animals join the who club (or the very important person club). All it needs now is some fungi and microbes.
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1 I learned about this incident from Gaëtanelle Gilquin and George M. Jacobs’s paper ‘Elephants Who Marry Mice are Very Unusual: The Use of the Relative Pronoun Who with Nonhuman Animals’. It has lots of data-informed commentary and is well worth reading if this topic interests you.
2 Examples do occur in films and other media, naturally. There’s a fun one in Batman: The Movie (1966) when Batman, after being attacked by a shark, which then explodes, says at a press conference: ‘That was an unfortunate animal who chanced to swallow a floating mine.’ The DVD subtitles change the line, or I’d have included an image.
#anaphora #animals #birds #books #grammar #JaneGoodall #language #literature #nature #pronouns #relativePronouns #usage #which #who #writing
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A list of animals who
The recent death of the great Jane Goodall brought me back to an old post about the use of who-pronouns with non-human animals, as in ‘swallows who flew past her window’, as opposed to ‘swallows that/which flew past her window’.
Goodall’s first scientific paper was returned to her with who replaced by which, and he or she replaced by it, in reference to chimpanzees. Goodall promptly reinstated her choice of pronouns, presumably seeing them as markers of the animals’ intrinsic value, and their substitution as an unwarranted moral demotion.1
Since then I’ve made note of other examples of animals who that I’ve read in books.2 This post compiles them in one place, where they form a kind of homemade menagerie of zoolinguistic solidarity. It extends, as we have seen, to swallows:
She watched the sudden, fast shadows of swallows who flew past her window in fleeting pairs, subtracting light from her room, and marvelled how living things could suspend themselves in mid-air. (Claire Keegan, ‘Men and Women’, in Antarctica)
And, from the same writer, sheep:
I sit by the window and keep an eye on the sheep who stare, bewildered, from the car.
Ducks:
‘At the place [. . .] where timid ducks, who must have been through some experiences in the ugly little gravel pool of the never-completed excavation, flew away from me . . . (Werner Herzog, Every Man for Himself and God Against All)
Cows:
I do not care for animals, except for cows, who combine supreme usefulness with a rustic kind of beauty. (Maeve Kelly, ‘The Sentimentalist’, in Orange Horses)
Kingfishers and otters:
In now distant days Iris used to return to Steeple Aston or Hartley Road full of her visit to them, and of what they had told her about their Welsh cottage, a converted schoolhouse. They told her of the pool they had built in the field behind it, the kingfishers and otters who came to visit there. (John Bayley, Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch)
Rabbits:
Who was the more frightened between them? (Nicola Barker, Wide Open, when a woman is startled to meet a rabbit in a kitchen)
Tadpoles (first which, then who):
And we presented her with gallons of frogspawn which duly turned into tadpoles, which ate each other until there were just a few fat cannibal monsters left, all black belly and no sign of legs, who got poured down the sink. (Lorna Sage, Bad Blood)
Bonobos:
The researchers’ most spectacular success has been with Kanzi, a bonobo (a species closely related to chimpanzees) who apparently learned lexigrams spontaneously as an infant while watching his mother being trained. (Abby Kaplan, Women Talk More than Men: …And Other Myths about Language Explained)
Chimpanzees:
In the study by Hirata and Fuwa (2006), for example, chimpanzees who did not solicit other chimpanzees to engage in a group activity quite readily solicited a presumably more helpful human. (Michael Tomasello, Origins of Human Communication)
I make piles, like the chimp who thought he was a human. (Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking)
Foxes:
And I look out for the fox, the fox who dropped me a rat. (Baume again)
Aardwolves and aasvogels (that’s right, aardwolves and aasvogels):
The aardvark is a peculiar African mammal whose equally peculiar double-A name has earned it its prestigious position as the first animal in the dictionary. Spare a thought, then, for its alphabetical next-door neighbours, the aardwolf and aasvogel, who are pipped into second and third place . . . (Paul Anthony Jones, Word Drops)
Horses:
But still they did not stop the mare, who cantered gaily onward. (Mary Lavin, ‘The Joy-Ride’, in In a Café)
It’s not just stallions who can become aggressive if they’re raised alone. (Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson, Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behaviour)
Pigs:
The sides of the pen are solid, so the other pigs can’t reach their snouts inside and bite the tail or rear end of the pig who’s eating. (Grandin and Johnson again)
Animals generally:
All animals who live in groups – and that is most mammals – form dominance hierarchies. (Grandin and Johnson)
Consider, he [Michael Trestman] says, the category of animals who have complex active bodies. These are animals who can move quickly, and who can seize and manipulate objects. (Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life)
If it is a number of animals who are being chased, and if the pack succeeds in surrounding them, then their mass flight turns into a panic, each of the hunted animals will try to escape on its own from the circle of its enemies. (Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power, translated from the German by Carol Stewart)
Wolves:
Wolves vary their hunting techniques, share food with the old who so not hunt, and give gifts to each other. (Barry Lopez, Of Wolves and Men)
A wolf who remains with his or her parents and helps raise their next litter is an alloparent. (Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy’s When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals)
(Many different animals are treated thus in Moussaieff Masson and McCarthy’s book, but I neglected to keep track, aside from the example above.)
Dogs, of course, are often so honoured – the most frequently so of all the animals in Gilquin and Jacobs’s data set (footnote 1):
They could care less that I once had a dog named Woodsprite who was crushed by a backhoe. (George Saunders, ‘The 400-Pound CEO’, in CivilWarLand in Bad Decline)
The same thing applied to the first three time dogs, two of whom had actually been the favourites. (James Kelman, ‘A wide runner’, in Not Not While the Giro)
Most senses require two of things – eyes, ears, hands. But we only have one nose. This is, again, to stop us smelling dogs so much, who stink. (Philomena Cunk, Cunk on Everything: The Encyclopedia Philomena)
Molly Keane explicitly calls dogs people, in both The Rising Tide:
The only people to whom she was a little kind were her dogs and Diana.
and Loving and Giving:
The dogs loved him as he loved them. They flew to his beautiful whistle, even when on the hot line of a rabbit. Nettle, the Killer, a fierce opinionated person who would have been hero of a rat-pit had Silly Willie been sweeping chimneys, was, of the three, his favourite.
Nuala Ní Chonchúir, similarly, uses someone in reference to a dog in You:
Sinbad goes banana-boats when he sees you through the balcony door. [. . .] You kneel down on the rug and let him lick your nose with his smelly tongue. That’s how dogs kiss each other. Then you remember that they also lick each other’s bums, so you don’t let him do it any more. Still, at least someone’s glad to see you.
Even an ant can be ‘someone’:
Last week my little nephew said to his father: “Look, someone is walking under the table.” The father, thinking that his son had had a hallucination, looked under the table and saw – an ant! For the child, an ant was “someone.” I, too, have never doubted that I am one animal among others. (from ‘A Talk with Konrad Lorenz’, in In the Modern Idiom: An Introduction to Literature, ed. Leo Hamalian & Arthur Zeiger)
Rats:
The worst thing about rats, says Steve, ‘is waiting for that big wet slap on your back’. ‘No,’ says Kevin, ‘it’s knowing you’re being watched but not knowing who’s watching and from where.’ London’s sewer rats generally run away from humans. New York’s don’t. (Rose George, The Big Necessity: Adventures in the World of Human Waste)
If you thought rats were unexpected, try trees:
Mycorrhizal fungi have coevolved with trees, with whom they’ve worked out a mutually beneficial relationship in which they trade the products of their very different metabolisms. (Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma)
As soon as the bright sunlight increases the rate of photosynthesis and stimulates growth, the buds of those who have shot up receive more sugar. (The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben, translated from the German by Jane Billinghurst)
And rivers: I’ve yet to read Robert Macfarlane’s book Is a River Alive?, but I saw an excerpt that referred to meeting ‘a living, threatened river who flows from the roadless boreal forest to the sea’. These non-human, non-animal examples align with a movement to grant living systems legal rights – chiefly to protect them from destructive human action.
The menagerie could be greatly enlarged by adding examples from other sources: conversations, letters and emails, social media, the internet generally, language corpora, etc. But this thin slice is based solely on offline reading because that’s how I often pattern my notes.
Using who or personal pronouns is not something I do automatically when referring to animals. Sometimes which, that, or it seems more apt, or I could go either way, depending on context. In footnote 2 I instinctively used which in reference to sharks and decided to leave it be.
I’m sure my usage is inconsistent – it’s one of those grey areas in language that I find interesting. Maybe it’s something you’ve noticed in your own usage. In any case, it’s fun to see new animals join the who club (or the very important person club). All it needs now is some fungi and microbes.
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1 I learned about this incident from Gaëtanelle Gilquin and George M. Jacobs’s paper ‘Elephants Who Marry Mice are Very Unusual: The Use of the Relative Pronoun Who with Nonhuman Animals’. It has lots of data-informed commentary and is well worth reading if this topic interests you.
2 Examples do occur in films and other media, naturally. There’s a fun one in Batman: The Movie (1966) when Batman, after being attacked by a shark, which then explodes, says at a press conference: ‘That was an unfortunate animal who chanced to swallow a floating mine.’ The DVD subtitles change the line, or I’d have included an image.
#anaphora #animals #birds #books #grammar #JaneGoodall #language #literature #nature #pronouns #relativePronouns #usage #which #who #writing
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A list of animals who
The recent death of the great Jane Goodall brought me back to an old post about the use of who-pronouns with non-human animals, as in ‘swallows who flew past her window’, as opposed to ‘swallows that/which flew past her window’.
Goodall’s first scientific paper was returned to her with who replaced by which, and he or she replaced by it, in reference to chimpanzees. Goodall promptly reinstated her choice of pronouns, presumably seeing them as markers of the animals’ intrinsic value, and their substitution as an unwarranted moral demotion.1
Since then I’ve made note of other examples of animals who that I’ve read in books.2 This post compiles them in one place, where they form a kind of homemade menagerie of zoolinguistic solidarity. It extends, as we have seen, to swallows:
She watched the sudden, fast shadows of swallows who flew past her window in fleeting pairs, subtracting light from her room, and marvelled how living things could suspend themselves in mid-air. (Claire Keegan, ‘Men and Women’, in Antarctica)
And, from the same writer, sheep:
I sit by the window and keep an eye on the sheep who stare, bewildered, from the car.
Ducks:
‘At the place [. . .] where timid ducks, who must have been through some experiences in the ugly little gravel pool of the never-completed excavation, flew away from me . . . (Werner Herzog, Every Man for Himself and God Against All)
Cows:
I do not care for animals, except for cows, who combine supreme usefulness with a rustic kind of beauty. (Maeve Kelly, ‘The Sentimentalist’, in Orange Horses)
Kingfishers and otters:
In now distant days Iris used to return to Steeple Aston or Hartley Road full of her visit to them, and of what they had told her about their Welsh cottage, a converted schoolhouse. They told her of the pool they had built in the field behind it, the kingfishers and otters who came to visit there. (John Bayley, Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch)
Rabbits:
Who was the more frightened between them? (Nicola Barker, Wide Open, when a woman is startled to meet a rabbit in a kitchen)
Tadpoles (first which, then who):
And we presented her with gallons of frogspawn which duly turned into tadpoles, which ate each other until there were just a few fat cannibal monsters left, all black belly and no sign of legs, who got poured down the sink. (Lorna Sage, Bad Blood)
Bonobos:
The researchers’ most spectacular success has been with Kanzi, a bonobo (a species closely related to chimpanzees) who apparently learned lexigrams spontaneously as an infant while watching his mother being trained. (Abby Kaplan, Women Talk More than Men: …And Other Myths about Language Explained)
Chimpanzees:
In the study by Hirata and Fuwa (2006), for example, chimpanzees who did not solicit other chimpanzees to engage in a group activity quite readily solicited a presumably more helpful human. (Michael Tomasello, Origins of Human Communication)
I make piles, like the chimp who thought he was a human. (Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking)
Foxes:
And I look out for the fox, the fox who dropped me a rat. (Baume again)
Aardwolves and aasvogels (that’s right, aardwolves and aasvogels):
The aardvark is a peculiar African mammal whose equally peculiar double-A name has earned it its prestigious position as the first animal in the dictionary. Spare a thought, then, for its alphabetical next-door neighbours, the aardwolf and aasvogel, who are pipped into second and third place . . . (Paul Anthony Jones, Word Drops)
Horses:
But still they did not stop the mare, who cantered gaily onward. (Mary Lavin, ‘The Joy-Ride’, in In a Café)
It’s not just stallions who can become aggressive if they’re raised alone. (Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson, Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behaviour)
Pigs:
The sides of the pen are solid, so the other pigs can’t reach their snouts inside and bite the tail or rear end of the pig who’s eating. (Grandin and Johnson again)
Animals generally:
All animals who live in groups – and that is most mammals – form dominance hierarchies. (Grandin and Johnson)
Consider, he [Michael Trestman] says, the category of animals who have complex active bodies. These are animals who can move quickly, and who can seize and manipulate objects. (Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life)
If it is a number of animals who are being chased, and if the pack succeeds in surrounding them, then their mass flight turns into a panic, each of the hunted animals will try to escape on its own from the circle of its enemies. (Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power, translated from the German by Carol Stewart)
Wolves:
Wolves vary their hunting techniques, share food with the old who so not hunt, and give gifts to each other. (Barry Lopez, Of Wolves and Men)
A wolf who remains with his or her parents and helps raise their next litter is an alloparent. (Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy’s When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals)
(Many different animals are treated thus in Moussaieff Masson and McCarthy’s book, but I neglected to keep track, aside from the example above.)
Dogs, of course, are often so honoured – the most frequently so of all the animals in Gilquin and Jacobs’s data set (footnote 1):
They could care less that I once had a dog named Woodsprite who was crushed by a backhoe. (George Saunders, ‘The 400-Pound CEO’, in CivilWarLand in Bad Decline)
The same thing applied to the first three time dogs, two of whom had actually been the favourites. (James Kelman, ‘A wide runner’, in Not Not While the Giro)
Most senses require two of things – eyes, ears, hands. But we only have one nose. This is, again, to stop us smelling dogs so much, who stink. (Philomena Cunk, Cunk on Everything: The Encyclopedia Philomena)
Molly Keane explicitly calls dogs people, in both The Rising Tide:
The only people to whom she was a little kind were her dogs and Diana.
and Loving and Giving:
The dogs loved him as he loved them. They flew to his beautiful whistle, even when on the hot line of a rabbit. Nettle, the Killer, a fierce opinionated person who would have been hero of a rat-pit had Silly Willie been sweeping chimneys, was, of the three, his favourite.
Nuala Ní Chonchúir, similarly, uses someone in reference to a dog in You:
Sinbad goes banana-boats when he sees you through the balcony door. [. . .] You kneel down on the rug and let him lick your nose with his smelly tongue. That’s how dogs kiss each other. Then you remember that they also lick each other’s bums, so you don’t let him do it any more. Still, at least someone’s glad to see you.
Even an ant can be ‘someone’:
Last week my little nephew said to his father: “Look, someone is walking under the table.” The father, thinking that his son had had a hallucination, looked under the table and saw – an ant! For the child, an ant was “someone.” I, too, have never doubted that I am one animal among others. (from ‘A Talk with Konrad Lorenz’, in In the Modern Idiom: An Introduction to Literature, ed. Leo Hamalian & Arthur Zeiger)
Rats:
The worst thing about rats, says Steve, ‘is waiting for that big wet slap on your back’. ‘No,’ says Kevin, ‘it’s knowing you’re being watched but not knowing who’s watching and from where.’ London’s sewer rats generally run away from humans. New York’s don’t. (Rose George, The Big Necessity: Adventures in the World of Human Waste)
If you thought rats were unexpected, try trees:
Mycorrhizal fungi have coevolved with trees, with whom they’ve worked out a mutually beneficial relationship in which they trade the products of their very different metabolisms. (Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma)
As soon as the bright sunlight increases the rate of photosynthesis and stimulates growth, the buds of those who have shot up receive more sugar. (The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben, translated from the German by Jane Billinghurst)
And rivers: I’ve yet to read Robert Macfarlane’s book Is a River Alive?, but I saw an excerpt that referred to meeting ‘a living, threatened river who flows from the roadless boreal forest to the sea’. These non-human, non-animal examples align with a movement to grant living systems legal rights – chiefly to protect them from destructive human action.
The menagerie could be greatly enlarged by adding examples from other sources: conversations, letters and emails, social media, the internet generally, language corpora, etc. But this thin slice is based solely on offline reading because that’s how I often pattern my notes.
Using who or personal pronouns is not something I do automatically when referring to animals. Sometimes which, that, or it seems more apt, or I could go either way, depending on context. In footnote 2 I instinctively used which in reference to sharks and decided to leave it be.
I’m sure my usage is inconsistent – it’s one of those grey areas in language that I find interesting. Maybe it’s something you’ve noticed in your own usage. In any case, it’s fun to see new animals join the who club (or the very important person club). All it needs now is some fungi and microbes.
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1 I learned about this incident from Gaëtanelle Gilquin and George M. Jacobs’s paper ‘Elephants Who Marry Mice are Very Unusual: The Use of the Relative Pronoun Who with Nonhuman Animals’. It has lots of data-informed commentary and is well worth reading if this topic interests you.
2 Examples do occur in films and other media, naturally. There’s a fun one in Batman: The Movie (1966) when Batman, after being attacked by a shark, which then explodes, says at a press conference: ‘That was an unfortunate animal who chanced to swallow a floating mine.’ The DVD subtitles change the line, or I’d have included an image.
#anaphora #animals #birds #books #grammar #JaneGoodall #language #literature #nature #pronouns #relativePronouns #usage #which #who #writing
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A list of animals who
The recent death of the great Jane Goodall brought me back to an old post about the use of who-pronouns with non-human animals, as in ‘swallows who flew past her window’, as opposed to ‘swallows that/which flew past her window’.
Goodall’s first scientific paper was returned to her with who replaced by which, and he or she replaced by it, in reference to chimpanzees. Goodall promptly reinstated her choice of pronouns, presumably seeing them as markers of the animals’ intrinsic value, and their substitution as an unwarranted moral demotion.1
Since then I’ve made note of other examples of animals who that I’ve read in books.2 This post compiles them in one place, where they form a kind of homemade menagerie of zoolinguistic solidarity. It extends, as we have seen, to swallows:
She watched the sudden, fast shadows of swallows who flew past her window in fleeting pairs, subtracting light from her room, and marvelled how living things could suspend themselves in mid-air. (Claire Keegan, ‘Men and Women’, in Antarctica)
And, from the same writer, sheep:
I sit by the window and keep an eye on the sheep who stare, bewildered, from the car.
Ducks:
‘At the place [. . .] where timid ducks, who must have been through some experiences in the ugly little gravel pool of the never-completed excavation, flew away from me . . . (Werner Herzog, Every Man for Himself and God Against All)
Cows:
I do not care for animals, except for cows, who combine supreme usefulness with a rustic kind of beauty. (Maeve Kelly, ‘The Sentimentalist’, in Orange Horses)
Kingfishers and otters:
In now distant days Iris used to return to Steeple Aston or Hartley Road full of her visit to them, and of what they had told her about their Welsh cottage, a converted schoolhouse. They told her of the pool they had built in the field behind it, the kingfishers and otters who came to visit there. (John Bayley, Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch)
Rabbits:
Who was the more frightened between them? (Nicola Barker, Wide Open, when a woman is startled to meet a rabbit in a kitchen)
Tadpoles (first which, then who):
And we presented her with gallons of frogspawn which duly turned into tadpoles, which ate each other until there were just a few fat cannibal monsters left, all black belly and no sign of legs, who got poured down the sink. (Lorna Sage, Bad Blood)
Bonobos:
The researchers’ most spectacular success has been with Kanzi, a bonobo (a species closely related to chimpanzees) who apparently learned lexigrams spontaneously as an infant while watching his mother being trained. (Abby Kaplan, Women Talk More than Men: …And Other Myths about Language Explained)
Chimpanzees:
In the study by Hirata and Fuwa (2006), for example, chimpanzees who did not solicit other chimpanzees to engage in a group activity quite readily solicited a presumably more helpful human. (Michael Tomasello, Origins of Human Communication)
I make piles, like the chimp who thought he was a human. (Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking)
Foxes:
And I look out for the fox, the fox who dropped me a rat. (Baume again)
Aardwolves and aasvogels (that’s right, aardwolves and aasvogels):
The aardvark is a peculiar African mammal whose equally peculiar double-A name has earned it its prestigious position as the first animal in the dictionary. Spare a thought, then, for its alphabetical next-door neighbours, the aardwolf and aasvogel, who are pipped into second and third place . . . (Paul Anthony Jones, Word Drops)
Horses:
But still they did not stop the mare, who cantered gaily onward. (Mary Lavin, ‘The Joy-Ride’, in In a Café)
It’s not just stallions who can become aggressive if they’re raised alone. (Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson, Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behaviour)
Pigs:
The sides of the pen are solid, so the other pigs can’t reach their snouts inside and bite the tail or rear end of the pig who’s eating. (Grandin and Johnson again)
Animals generally:
All animals who live in groups – and that is most mammals – form dominance hierarchies. (Grandin and Johnson)
Consider, he [Michael Trestman] says, the category of animals who have complex active bodies. These are animals who can move quickly, and who can seize and manipulate objects. (Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life)
If it is a number of animals who are being chased, and if the pack succeeds in surrounding them, then their mass flight turns into a panic, each of the hunted animals will try to escape on its own from the circle of its enemies. (Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power, translated from the German by Carol Stewart)
Wolves:
Wolves vary their hunting techniques, share food with the old who so not hunt, and give gifts to each other. (Barry Lopez, Of Wolves and Men)
A wolf who remains with his or her parents and helps raise their next litter is an alloparent. (Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy’s When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals)
(Many different animals are treated thus in Moussaieff Masson and McCarthy’s book, but I neglected to keep track, aside from the example above.)
Dogs, of course, are often so honoured – the most frequently so of all the animals in Gilquin and Jacobs’s data set (footnote 1):
They could care less that I once had a dog named Woodsprite who was crushed by a backhoe. (George Saunders, ‘The 400-Pound CEO’, in CivilWarLand in Bad Decline)
The same thing applied to the first three time dogs, two of whom had actually been the favourites. (James Kelman, ‘A wide runner’, in Not Not While the Giro)
Most senses require two of things – eyes, ears, hands. But we only have one nose. This is, again, to stop us smelling dogs so much, who stink. (Philomena Cunk, Cunk on Everything: The Encyclopedia Philomena)
Molly Keane explicitly calls dogs people, in both The Rising Tide:
The only people to whom she was a little kind were her dogs and Diana.
and Loving and Giving:
The dogs loved him as he loved them. They flew to his beautiful whistle, even when on the hot line of a rabbit. Nettle, the Killer, a fierce opinionated person who would have been hero of a rat-pit had Silly Willie been sweeping chimneys, was, of the three, his favourite.
Nuala Ní Chonchúir, similarly, uses someone in reference to a dog in You:
Sinbad goes banana-boats when he sees you through the balcony door. [. . .] You kneel down on the rug and let him lick your nose with his smelly tongue. That’s how dogs kiss each other. Then you remember that they also lick each other’s bums, so you don’t let him do it any more. Still, at least someone’s glad to see you.
Even an ant can be ‘someone’:
Last week my little nephew said to his father: “Look, someone is walking under the table.” The father, thinking that his son had had a hallucination, looked under the table and saw – an ant! For the child, an ant was “someone.” I, too, have never doubted that I am one animal among others. (from ‘A Talk with Konrad Lorenz’, in In the Modern Idiom: An Introduction to Literature, ed. Leo Hamalian & Arthur Zeiger)
Rats:
The worst thing about rats, says Steve, ‘is waiting for that big wet slap on your back’. ‘No,’ says Kevin, ‘it’s knowing you’re being watched but not knowing who’s watching and from where.’ London’s sewer rats generally run away from humans. New York’s don’t. (Rose George, The Big Necessity: Adventures in the World of Human Waste)
If you thought rats were unexpected, try trees:
Mycorrhizal fungi have coevolved with trees, with whom they’ve worked out a mutually beneficial relationship in which they trade the products of their very different metabolisms. (Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma)
As soon as the bright sunlight increases the rate of photosynthesis and stimulates growth, the buds of those who have shot up receive more sugar. (The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben, translated from the German by Jane Billinghurst)
And rivers: I’ve yet to read Robert Macfarlane’s book Is a River Alive?, but I saw an excerpt that referred to meeting ‘a living, threatened river who flows from the roadless boreal forest to the sea’. These non-human, non-animal examples align with a movement to grant living systems legal rights – chiefly to protect them from destructive human action.
The menagerie could be greatly enlarged by adding examples from other sources: conversations, letters and emails, social media, the internet generally, language corpora, etc. But this thin slice is based solely on offline reading because that’s how I often pattern my notes.
Using who or personal pronouns is not something I do automatically when referring to animals. Sometimes which, that, or it seems more apt, or I could go either way, depending on context. In footnote 2 I instinctively used which in reference to sharks and decided to leave it be.
I’m sure my usage is inconsistent – it’s one of those grey areas in language that I find interesting. Maybe it’s something you’ve noticed in your own usage. In any case, it’s fun to see new animals join the who club (or the very important person club). All it needs now is some fungi and microbes.
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1 I learned about this incident from Gaëtanelle Gilquin and George M. Jacobs’s paper ‘Elephants Who Marry Mice are Very Unusual: The Use of the Relative Pronoun Who with Nonhuman Animals’. It has lots of data-informed commentary and is well worth reading if this topic interests you.
2 Examples do occur in films and other media, naturally. There’s a fun one in Batman: The Movie (1966) when Batman, after being attacked by a shark, which then explodes, says at a press conference: ‘That was an unfortunate animal who chanced to swallow a floating mine.’ The DVD subtitles change the line, or I’d have included an image.
#anaphora #animals #birds #books #grammar #JaneGoodall #language #literature #nature #pronouns #relativePronouns #usage #which #who #writing
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#introduction time!
hello all, fellow #twittermigration emigre here. I'm Nora, a project specialist hailing from #CentralEurope based in #London #UK , eternally longing for the #mountains .
☀ I'm the co-founder of a #AuDHD #neurodivergence consultancy. #writer engrossed in #indiemusic #culture #minimalism & #slowlife
🌙 My passion is chasing #moments of awe in #nature #literature #learning
🎠 #travel and #curiosity fuel my dreams. I enjoy good filter #coffee #longwalks #photography delicious #bread and #books
📯 In search of #community here. Expect the occasional #WalkWithMe and #TestAndLearn
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I bought a refurbished HP Probook x360 435 G8 Touch (2-in-1) Ryzen 5 5600U with an active pen for 299€.
Booted it into #linuxmint using the live image. Everything works including the touchscreen and pen.
I did some research beforehand and it turns out that this is comparable in performance to a #steamdeck - my benchmark device.
The perfect development and testmachine for my #godot game #slyceverse. Also doubles as graphics tablet.
Next: full mint install 😃
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Danke, @Mela
Das Thema Cyberstalking ist für viele extrem unangenehm, weswegen wir Betroffenen immer wieder den "Rat-Schlag" erhalten, wir sollten die Stalker doch "einfach ignorieren".
Ja, auch heute. Und, ja, auch auf Mastodon...
@Heinrich_Konstantin_Tessmann #Cyberstalking #Cybermobbing #Ratschlag #Solidarität
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Después de varios días testeando y analizando, tengo el orgullo de poder decir que (ahora sí) la web de #YokaiSenso es 100% accesible desde navegadores web en modo texto (por mi parte lo he testeado personalmente en los navegadores w3c, eLinks y lynx2). Este es un punto súper importante, ya que de ello depende también la compatibilidad para personas con discapacidad visual y, desgraciadamente, ¡la mayoría de desarrolladores web no pensamos apenas en ello! Abro hilo para entrar en detalles y curiosidades. ++
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Testando, 1, 2
Depois do fiasco do Elon Musk avacalhando com o twitter e deixando as postagens de nazistas e da extrema-direita comer solta eu resolvi abandonar aquele pardieiro e cair de cabeça no Mastodon, que é quase como um twiter no início dos tempos. Tá legal a parada, e é mais fácil achar interesses como ilustrações e animações sem ser bombardeado por mensagens bizarras que não tinha nada a ver com o que eu quero acompanh
https://fabioromeo.com/reflexoes/testando-1-2/
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Tagungszentrum ohne Betrieb: Unklar, wie’s weitergeht – Wird das Haus Birkach zum Lost Place? – KRZ Plus
Das Haus Birkach: Der riesige preisgekrönte Behnisch-Bau könnte nun in einen Dornröschenschlaf fallen. Foto: To…
#Stuttgart #Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #"Kirche" #Baden-Württemberg #Birkach #EvangelischeLandeskircheWürttemberg #Gebäude #Germany #HausBirkach #Tagung #Tagungszentrum #Textmanager
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Stuttgarterin Uta Zöphel: Nach 18 Jahren sagt sie dem Leonhardsviertel Adieu
Seit 2008 lebte Uta Zöphel über der Fou Fou Bar. Sie kennt die guten und weniger guten Seiten…
#Stuttgart #Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Ausgehviertel #Baden-Württemberg #Bohnenviertel #FouFouBar #Germany #Leonhardsviertel #Tabledance #Textmanager #Uhu-Bar
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Stuttgarterin Uta Zöphel: Nach 18 Jahren sagt sie dem Leonhardsviertel Adieu – Stuttgart
Seit 2008 lebte Uta Zöphel über der Fou Fou Bar. Sie kennt die guten und weniger guten Seiten…
#Stuttgart #Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Ausgehviertel #Baden-Württemberg #Bohnenviertel #FouFouBar #Germany #Leonhardsviertel #Tabledance #Textmanager #Uhu-Bar
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CW: Painonpudotus, syöminen
🐟 Nyt on niin pirun terveellistä ettääääh..!
Yllättävän kylläinen olo tuli kuvassa olevan annoksen syömisen jälkeen. Testaan työpäivien aikana kevyempää lounasta kuin aiemmin.
Ennen lomia mulla oli tapana käydä "työlounaalla" jossain buffetissa ja vedin siellä vatsan aivan täyteen. Se johti siihen, että oli lähes ähky ja semmonen aivosumu päällä pari tuntia. Pyrin tämänkaltaisilla aterioilla vähentämään aivosumua, että pysyis virkeempänä koko (työ)päivän.
Illalla taas liikunnan jälkeen sit hieman tukevampi annos. #ruoka #ravinto #syöminen
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heise+ | DJI-Alternative: Kameradrohne Potensic Atom 2 im Test
Man könnte meinen, DJI sei der einzige verbliebene Drohnenhersteller auf dem deutschen Markt. Doch mit Potensics Atom 2 gibt es eine Alternative.
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tags apparently aren't picked up easily in profiles. works better in posts:
🧷: Safe, being an ally.
🌻: #ActuallyAutistic.
🐐: #GoatsBook on #LeanPub. 🗺: #WardleyMapping
📕#LtaBook #wordpress
🇩🇰: based in Denmark
#MinistryOfTesting
#testmanagement
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https://www.europesays.com/pl/237105/ Czym charakteryzuje się ekran Tandem OLED w laptopie? Sprawdzamy to na przykładzie modelu ASUS Expertbook Ultra #asus #AsusExpertbookUltra #charakterystyka #ekran #ExpertbookUltra #laptop #matryca #Nauka #NaukaITechnika #NaukaTechnika #notebook #Notebooki #oled #PL #Poland #Polish #Polska #Polski #Science #ScienceAndTechnology #ScienceTechnology #TandemOled #Technika #Technology #test #TestTandemOled #ultrabook #wyświetlacz
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@TestAndAnalysis Thank you!
I am especially happy to see that a lot of people are buying packages of 10 books already!
Not just individual books. Which is great, because we created this book of #Deming quotes to be accessible to LOTS of people!
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«Teknologiari» buruzko solasaldia
Ursula K. Le Guin-ek 2005ean idatzitako hau egunerokoan ez ahazteko, euskarara ekarria. Teknologia dena eta ez dena, nola erabakitzen diguten gogorarazten digu testuak. Horri aurre egiteko, teknologia denon afera dela ulertzeko, teknologia beraren izaera bera zalantzan jartzea proposatzen digu Ursulak testuan.
Changing Planes lanari buruzko aldeko kritika interesgarri batean, argentinar kritiko batek baieztatzen duenez, Le Guin zientzia-fikzio gogorreko idazlea ez denez, “teknologia kontu handiz saihesten duela”. Ohar bat idatzi nuen artikulu horren itzulpenean, eta hona hemen orain oin-ohar horren zabalpena — gaiak haserrea eragin didalako —.
ZF “gogorra” teknologiari buruzkoa da, eta ZF “bigunak” ez du teknologiarik, ezta? Eta nire liburuek ez dute teknologiarik, psikologia eta emozioak bezalako gai xaloak bakarrik interesatzen zaizkidalako.
Hori ez da zuzena. Nola liteke edozein benetako zientzia fikzioak eduki teknologikorik ez izatea? Bere interes nagusia ingeniaritzan edo makinen funtzionamenduan ez badago ere — nire lan gehienek bezala, adimenek, gizarteek eta kulturek nola funtzionatzen duten gehiago interesatzen baitzait —, hala ere, nola egin dezake inork etorkizun edo kultura estralurtar bati buruzko istorio bat bere teknologia, inplizituki edo esplizituki, deskribatu gabe?
Inork ezin du. Ezin dut imajinatu zergatik nahiko luketen ere.
Gizarte batek errealitate fisikoari aurre egiten dion era da teknologia: nola lortzen, gordetzen eta prestatzen duen jendeak janaria, nola janzten den, zein energia-iturri dituen (animali-indarra? ura? haizea? elektrizitatea? beste bat?) zerekin eta zer eraikitzen duten, bere osasungintza… eta abar. Agian oso jende etereoari ez zaizkio interesatzen gorputzeko kontu mundutar horiek, baina liluratu egiten naute, eta uste dut nire irakurle gehienei ere.
Teknologia mundu materialarekiko giza interfaze aktiboa da.
Baina hitza etengabe gaizki erabiltzen da azken hamarkadetako teknologia konplexu eta espezializatuak bakarrik adierazteko, baliabide naturalen zein giza baliabideen ustiapen masiboan oinarrituta.
Hau ez da hitzaren erabilera onargarri bat. “Teknologia” eta “Teknologia aurreratua” ez dira sinonimoak, eta “aurreratua” ez den teknologia ez du zertan nahitaez “baxua” izan beharrik.
Ehun eta berrogeita hamar urteko trebetasun teknikoaren etengabeko hedapenak hainbeste gogortu gaitu, ezen uste dugu ordenagailu batek edo bonbardaketa-hegazkin bat baino konplexuagoa eta ikusgarriagoa denak soilik merezi duela “teknologia” bezala izendatzea. Lihoa linazia gauza bera balira bezala — papera, tinta, gurpilak, labanak, erlojuak, aulkiak, aspirina pilulak, gauza naturalak balira bezala, gure hortzak eta hatzak bezala gurekin batera sortuak — kobrezko hondoa duten altzairuzko lapikoak eta beira birziklatuz eginiko txaleko polarrak zuhaitzetan haziko balira eta heldutakoan jasoko bagenitu bezala…
Teknologia gehienak nahiko “aurreratuak” direla adierazteko modu bat da norberak bere buruari galdetzea: badakit horrelakorik egiten?
Pospolorik gabe su bat piztu duenak, ziur aski, nolabaiteko errespetua izango du teknologia “baxu”, “primitibo” edo “sinple” horiekiko; pospoloekin sua piztu duenak, berriz, asmakizun teknologiko aurreratu bikain hori errespetatu beharko luke.
Ez dakit hozkailu bat eraikitzen eta energiaz-hornitzen, ezta ordenagailu bat programatzen, baina ezta amu bat edo zapata pare bat egiten ere. Ikas nezakeen. Denok ikas dezakegu. Hori da teknologien alde ona. Egiten ikas dezakeguna dira.
Eta zientzia fikzio oro, modu batera edo bestera, teknologikoa da. Baita hitzak zer esan nahi duen ez dakien jendeak idazten duenean ere.
Hala ere, ados nago nire iritzi-emailearekin ez dudala zientzia fikzio gogorrik idazten. Agian zientzia fikzio erraza idazten dut. Edo agian gauza gogorra barruan dago, ezkutatuta — hezurrak bezala, exoeskeleto batekin alderatuta…
— Ursula K. Le Guin, 2005
Originala: https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about-technology
Irudia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ursula_K._Le_Guin_signature.svg#etorkizuna #feminismoa #itzulpena #teknologia #UrsulaKLeGuin #zientziaFikzioa #ZiFi
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