Re: Importance of Native Language
ALLAN LISKA (hstaub@bss1.umd.edu)
Thu, 10 Feb 1994 22:45:47 EDT
I don't know if this is exactly what you are looking for--but I like
it:
Conversation was never begun at once, nor in a hurried manner.
No one was quick with a question, no matter how important, and no one
was pressed for an answer. A pause giving time for thought was the
truly courteous way of beginning and conducting a conversation.
Silence was meaningful with the Lakota, and his granting a space of
silence to the speech-maker and his own moment of silence before
talking was done in the practice of true politeness and regard for
the rule that, "thought comes before speech."
This quote is accredited to Luther Standing Bear a Chief of the Ogala
Sioux. Your project sounds interesting please keep me, well, I guess
us (since you don't really have a choice), updated, and good luck.
-allan
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