In which case we did it wrong (and thank you for saying): because, yes, we were going for sending up the stylistic traits of Victorian gentlemen explorers (and specifically the British :-p), but that as distinct from sending up anthropology or sociolinguistics as a whole, & especially not thinking that discussion of this kind of issue is redundant! (I'm a Very Armchair Sociolinguist, and t'other two are Significantly More Serious about it.) OTOH I think (they can correct me if I'm wrong on this!) that noldo & the woozl have done significantly more reading of Recent Anthropological Papers, with particular focus on groups that are very definitely Other to mainstream academia (e.g. minority populations in South-East Asia), and do still come across enough of this stuff to be irritated by it. (Or possibly it is that most commonly-available language texts were in fact written Quite A While Ago? Not sure.) But yes - that's where we're coming from - none of us really being British, in spite of two of us holding the relevant passport).
Erm. No idea whether that pile of BUT INTENT THOOOOO will help any?
(&& for what it's worth? Actually, I tend to enjoy that kind of post, though admittedly mainly when I go looking it out - but there is very much a culture within geology of referring to horrible metamorphic outcrops as "fubarite", and of watching shitty geology movies on field trips & using them as drinking games, & so on - so that is some more of my context.)
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Date: 2013-02-01 06:53 pm (UTC)Erm. No idea whether that pile of BUT INTENT THOOOOO will help any?
(&& for what it's worth? Actually, I tend to enjoy that kind of post, though admittedly mainly when I go looking it out - but there is very much a culture within geology of referring to horrible metamorphic outcrops as "fubarite", and of watching shitty geology movies on field trips & using them as drinking games, & so on - so that is some more of my context.)