语言恶女

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• 一个小男孩和他的父亲遭遇车祸，父亲在车祸中丧生，小男孩被迅速送到医院并准备紧急手术。外科医生走进手术室，一看就说：“我不能给他做手术——那是我儿子。”这是怎么回事？这种情况让很多人疑惑不解，觉得男孩的父亲不是已经死了吗，怎么还能去给他儿子做手术？只有少数几个人得出结论，说那位外科医生实际上是小男孩的母亲。啊，多么罕见的、奇异的“女”外科医生。 (查看原文)

  Orbiu 15赞 2024-06-15 18:44:30

• Language can be an empowering resource for women who wish to move up in the world; it has been for generations. A striking example: In 1978 award-winning linguist Susan Gal traveled to Austria to study a small, poor Hungarian-speaking village that had ended up on Austrian soil due to how the borders changed after World War I. This border shift was bad luck for these Hungarian villagers, because now they were forced to live in a country where everyone else spoke German. So, the women—the young women at least—began learning it. This was a smart move because having some German under their belts would allow them to leave the village, get better jobs, marry hot Austrian husbands if they were into that sort of thing, and generally climb the socioeconomic stepladder. Gal noticed that it was too l... (查看原文)

  Le Flaneur 8赞 2022-05-22 20:10:37

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