Mind your language on animals

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Mind Your Language on Animals
Presentation by
Excalibre
Where you discover your inherent potential.
Excalibre:where you discover your
inherent potential. Cell 9818812102
D 138 sector 36, Noida. 210 303 India. Tel 91-120-432 5630
ks.ahluwalia@yahoo.com. M 91-981888 12102

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Why does our language reflect prejudices and
cruelty towards animals.
Is it time to rethink these words in our vocabulary

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Words last longer than deeds and inflict more harm than those
proverbial sticks and stone*.
How we talk becomes how we think and act**. True or false
For example – the term ‘menace’ foolishly suffixed to dog/cow/monkey,
invites hostility against this hapless creature, that neither prey upon us,
nor pose any threats to we humans.
One is the man’s best friend, the other our mother and the third ranks
amongst our chief God’s.
Our language is littered with derogative references to animals.

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Our usage of these words, thoughtlessly perpetuates prejudices that
translate into cruelty for them.
Lets examine some of them

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Pigs are actually fastidious* feeders with a fantastic sense of smell.
In France, they are used to find truffles, delicately scented mushrooms
that gourmets relish.
Like deer, elephants, birds and even kids, pigs don’t wallow in mud,
but indulge so to escape heat and flies.
Still you and I persist with a silly stereotype of pigs, when they actually
are friendly, forgiving and fun loving animals with a fully formed lingo,
and an IQ higher even than dogs.
They are neither selfish nor stupid or stubborn, so why ‘pig headed’, and
neither are they wicked, and yet ‘swine’ is a nasty epithet.

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All bats can see although vision may not be their primary sense.
Instead these super heroes use an acoustic orientation called
‘echolocation’ ,1,000 times more sophisticated than any human radar.
It can pick up a fish fin as fine as a hair rising barely 2mm above the
Water or a beetle walking on sand over 6 feet away.
So how about’ bright as a bat’ now.

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Gossips with a strong sense of right and wrong, donkeys laugh and cry
easily, form strong friendships and find their own equilibrium in a terribly
unkind world.
You’d be stupid to say’ donkey’ in derision.

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Bird can accurately navigate a million miles or calculate time to the exact
second.
So Einstein might be called as birdbrain but not certainly Blondie.
It was the clever “ V’ formation of geese that inspired an airplane design.
They live in perfectly ordered societies and there is nothing silly about a
goose

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Owl sees clearly in the dark, flies silently, straight, and is of enormous
help in maintaining the pest population.
So’ Ullu ka patha’ or’ son of an owl’ is rightfully a compliment, not curse

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‘Making a monkey’ of someone implies that monkeys are foolish and
their behavior embarrassing.
What does it say about us, their descendants.
Apes are rational, intelligent problem solvers, so its crazy to call
craziness’ going ape’.

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Animals neither rape nor murder yet we blithely refer top villains as
‘animals’ and their behavior as’ beastly’.
‘Bitch’ the technical term for a female dog, who is typically gentle, has
been mangled beyond recognition to become one of the ugliest abuses
for woman.
Dogs as unfairly ‘ Kutte Kamene’ is among our pet ‘gallis’ even when
they exemplify all that is honorable.
Similarly nor are rats, the sneaks, suggested by the phrase ’ratting’ on
someone.
Rats never betray kin, thus why attribute the despicably human trait of
deserting those in bad times to this plucky creature.

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A little bird that hold its head high while undergoing extreme torture can
hardly be considered as a coward.
Imagine being cooped in a cage forever injecting with hormones,
dragged by your injured limbs, electrocuted.
Chickens deserve a gallantry awarded, posthumously, not the false tag
of faintheartedness.
Cocks defend themselves and their families by pecking, hiding, running,
fluffing their wings – whatever it takes. They neither are foolish nor
gullible so where is the sense of drubbing a dupe as’ murga’. Or, for that
matter, a ‘bakra’.
Goats are herded together under threat, nor are the lambs led easily to
slaughter. Even the baby animal senses danger and struggles in fright.

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Snakes are shy not sly and their first instinct, flight not fight.
They have never known to attack a human, even when cornered.
They warn before they attack, in self defense.
So snake in the grass should hardly mean underhanded.
Crocodiles don’t cry, foxes aren't cunning nor cocks vain.
Thus in future, watch what you say.

Lets Connect
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91-120-4325630. 91-98188 12102
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Thank You for Your Time Attention, Effort and Patience
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