Interesting Links for 16-03-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Why I Decided to Update the Language in Ursula K. Le Guin's Children's Books

(tags:language UrsulaKLegGuin )

2. FORTY-SIX (46) people, including five newborn babies, died while housed at Home Office asylum-seeker accommodation in 2022

(tags:children asylum death UK OhForFucksSake )

3. Half of British Television Always Starts Like This

(tags:parody tv funny viaSwampers )

Comments

[bens_dad]

1 I haven't read any UKLG and I am not certain about "stupid" but the 1970's meanings of "lame", "queer" and "dumb" may not be the first meanings that come to mind of a child of today.

Many of the comments talk about the words now being insulting, which misses the point. Do we expose children to unfamiliar uses of words or replace them with words that more readily impart the desired meaning ?