{"id":3776,"date":"2009-01-21T09:23:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T09:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2009\/01\/how-soon-we-get-used-to-things\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:46:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:46:50","slug":"how-soon-we-get-used-to-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2009\/01\/how-soon-we-get-used-to-things\/","title":{"rendered":"How soon we get used to things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>40 years ago in Adelaide I didn&#8217;t even know the name of the people whose country was <a href=\"http:\/\/historysouthaustralia.net\/Proc.htm\">officially invaded<\/a>  on 28 December 1836.  Last Christmas walking in the city, I saw:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/tindo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tindo.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/tindo-thumb.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adelaidecitycouncil.com\/scripts\/nc.dll?ADCC:STANDARD::pc=PC_151048\">Tindo, a free solar-powered connector bus<\/a> running around Adelaide.  <em>Tindo<\/em> is the Kaurna word for &#8216;sun&#8217;, and the choice of name was discussed and authorised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adelaide.edu.au\/kwp\/\">Kaurna Warra Pintyandi<\/a>, the Kaurna language committee.<br \/>\nAnd at an Anglican church in an eastern suburb, I heard:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We pray for your world. We thank you for the Kaurna people who for many thousands of years cared for the land on which we now worship&#8221; [1]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s all quite unremarkable.   Kaurna language and Kaurna people are now part of everyday life.<br \/>\nToday <em>[thanks Nick<\/em>!] I learned that endangered languages and their documenters have become so much part of everyday life that a comedian could joke about them in 2007.  See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/103268\/september-25-2007\/k--david-harrison\">Colbert report<\/a> interviewing the <a href=\"\/blog\/2007\/09\/fifo-fieldwork\/\">FiFo<\/a> linguist, K. David Harrison.<br \/>\nColbert seesaws between taking the micky out of the (dangerous) <em>Every word is sacred<\/em>  argument, and drawing on the &#8220;Me Tarzan\/Ching chong chinaman&#8221; stereotype of  foreign languages. With a dash of linguists being in it for the grant money.  And then the utilitarian punch of &#8211;<em> So has your book been translated into an endangered language?<br \/>\nIs your blog written in an endangered language<\/em>?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infosearchweb.com\/main_frame.cfm?document_id=3048&#038;dataset_doc_id=99\">St David&#8217;s Church<\/a>, Burnside.  &#8220;Prayers of the people&#8221; prepared by Elizabeth Brissenden and her grandson Miles Farnan. 25\/12\/2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>40 years ago in Adelaide I didn&#8217;t even know the name of the people whose country was officially invaded on 28 December 1836. 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