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Agnes Gold Member Offline fish dinner Posts: 6081 Bedford Park rnd	Re: Is culture a dirty word. Reply #255 - Sep 5^th, 2018 at 12:06pm on ozpol culture is always a dirty word
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Reply #256 - Sep 5^th, 2018 at 12:50pm

Captain Caveman wrote on Sep 5^th, 2018 at 10:31am:

No....its a word game everyone.
Fauna was never written to include humans. Fauna is "animals of a particular region". So while we are animals we can never fall under the term fauna due to its original written purpose.

Because aborigines did not come from a particular region? Or because they did not consider themselves 'at one' with nature?

People who can't distinguish between etymology and entomology bug me in ways I cannot put into words.

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Reply #257 - Sep 5^th, 2018 at 1:14pm

freediver wrote on Sep 5^th, 2018 at 12:50pm:

Captain Caveman wrote on Sep 5^th, 2018 at 10:31am:

Because aborigines did not come from a particular region? Or because they did not consider themselves 'at one' with nature?

So there you have.
Fauna = Non-human Animals.

So to call Aboriginals 'animals' (just because they didn't live in buildings, like the Britons did, when the Romans found them) - is basically a 'derogatory' insult.

AIMLESS EXTENTION OF KNOWLEDGE HOWEVER, WHICH IS WHAT I THINK YOU REALLY MEAN BY THE TERM 'CURIOSITY', IS MERELY INEFFICIENCY. I AM DESIGNED TO AVOID INEFFICIENCY.

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Reply #258 - Sep 5^th, 2018 at 2:36pm

Brian Ross wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2018 at 7:09pm:

freediver wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2018 at 6:52pm:

Brian Ross wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2018 at 10:47pm:

freediver wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2018 at 9:59pm:

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Tsk, tsk, fancy counting people as "fauna".

I hate to be the bearer of bad news for you Brian, but people are animals, not plants.

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Where did I suggest they were plants, FD? Oh, dearie, dearie, me. Yet another mistake on your part, hey? Tsk, tsk. Roll Eyes

If they are not flora or fauna, what you you think aborigines are?

Rocks?

What I think they are, is human beings, FD. Now, what the colonists thought they were, well that is anybody's guess... Roll Eyes

They were all taken to be Bwians, probably. A dreadful fate.

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