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[oudeteron]

I would like to know how we can get anything said at all if, before we even open the virtual equivalent of our mouths, we are judged by whatever forum or platform we use to host our statements on. Lately I've seen LJ users flinging mock-insults at Tumblr users, the internet at large tut-tutting LJ users, and so on, all based upon the assumption

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[cherrytruck]

This is a worthy addition

[oudeteron]

THANK YOU.

/BOWS RESPECTFULLY

[pitry]

I completely agree about academia, which is one of the reasons I really love my chosen field. I'm studying language documentation, which involves almost always minority languages. Now, ethics point out that we the linguists gain a career out of the work, and that the speaker community should also gain something from it. So the norm sort of developed that the minimum of what people give back is a dictionary and grammar, and in better cases also educational materials. But, seeing as a lot of the traditional forms of these things is not necessarily the best for the language speakers or learners, and since the publishing of all of these takes forever and they're usually very expensive, it's very common these days that the results made for the community are published online. So there's so many online resources and it's not frowned upon. Which is brilliant.

I generally agree with what you've said, and am now trying to phrase it in FFR-worthy ways :D

[oudeteron]

Thanks for the comment! I don't have much to add except that I'm glad this has resonated with you. :D