CULTURE
They requested the HKSAR to "rural" no longer mean "uneducated" and "rude"
field Unions join campaign Cudillero Mayor "for enhance "the word
ABC / MADRID - 29/04/2011
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another pinch Sift the dictionary. Coag and Upa unions have issued Valladolid its intention to require the Royal English Academy (RAE) to remove the second sense of the word "rural." The Dictionary of the RAE defines "rural" as "belonging or relating to country life and his work" at first meaning as "uneducated, rough, things attached to local women" in the second. This is the definition that unions want to delete. Is there not rude and uneducated citizens in cities, and scholars and intelligent people in the English countryside? For this reason, these associations seems to deserve a struggle to change the perception of reality from the dictionary.
is not the first time you pinch the great work of the Academy which ensures that our language in order to eliminate any sense politically incorrect. As you may recall, the SAR eliminated the term "dumb" between the meanings of the word "Galician", common in some countries in Latin America, and feminist groups have repeatedly claimed the elimination of "machismo of substance" watching from their positions . Political correctness may be in the case of "rural" so full of reasons as to "gallego". But would not hurt to also remember that the academic Ana Maria Matute attacked in his speech last Wednesday against political correctness, which serves also maul ancient stories that provide insights very attached to our civilization, which explain the reality in which we have developed, but do not mix well with a society obsessed with the forms. Discriminatory
Coag and Upa think that "it is highly discriminatory towards men and women in the field that this institution, a symbol of Hispanic culture, pick up words like" uneducated "or" rude "to refer to rural" The "Alliance for Field Unit ", which form the UPA and COAG organizations, adheres to the initiative launched by Mayor Cudillero Spaniard. It is "actively championing a citizen initiative and institutional level of Castile and Leon to enhance peoples, and thus show our pride in being and feeling "rural". "
In its statement, the unit calling itself the Alliance for the Countryside said: "We understand that in the case of the institution in relation to our language, the SAR should ignore this definition quite derogatory and pejorative that rates of rural citizens unevenly over the urban environment. " Coag and Upa believe that "society is moving very quietly and convincingly to an increasingly more just and equal, and all that is to maintain stereotypes that do not conform to reality and that they are offensive is an absurd, absurd way to denigrate the men and women in the field. " In his view
"the fact of living in the villages and today is a clear discrimination against the urban dwellers 'about' rights, services, opportunities and obligations."
Thus, they conclude, "the country is not at odds with much less cultured, professional, sensitive, how risky or respectful, and a general sense is far from what is now enshrined in the RAE. Serve as significant examples of Castile and Leon "rural" great humanist and literary personalities and Núñez de Arce, Jorge Manrique, San Juan de la Cruz, Jiménez Lozano, Alonso de Madrigal, Luis Mateo Díez and Julio Llamazares, among others.
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