[ RadSafe ] Radsafe rules and SOME people's conduct

[Flanigan, Floyd]

Thanks Ruth. I think there are a lot of miscommunications due to the subtleties of most languages when interchanged. A simple example which had far-reaching interpretive consequences is the following: In the Bible, where it says that God took the 'rib' of Adam and made Eve, modern people have been taught that it was a real rib, as in a part of the rib cage. In truth, the word 'rib' in the original text/original language, means to cleave into two symmetrical halves. But, due to the ideology that women were less than men in the prevailing culture at the time of translation, women were given only the status of having been created from a single bone from a man, when in the original text it says she was created by using exactly one half ... making them equal metaphorically.
 
Go figure.
 
Floyd W.Flanigan B.S.Nuc.H.P.

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From: RuthWeiner at aol.com [mailto:RuthWeiner at aol.com]
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Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Radsafe rules and SOME people's conduct


In a message dated 2/11/2005 7:27:58 AM Mountain Standard Time, Floyd.Flanigan at nmcco.com writes:

They go hand in hand. Has anyone here got an in-depth understanding of why F.S. says some of the things he says? For that matter, has anyone asked? 

I cannot cite particular instances.  However, I am bilingual (German is my first language) and I recognize that people say things differently in different languages and cultures.  What we say in German tends to be more forthright and blunt, and also sometimes more colorful, than is common for native speakers of American English.    I just finished translating the German TV narrative of the recent drop test and fire test of the Constor SNF cask.  For example, the German TV announcer gave a much more colorful rendition of the  test circumstances than we would have done in America.  She said (literally) "the invited experts anxiously awaited the beginning of the test"  (in fact, to get the idiom right, it would be "were on the edge of their seats...")  An American announcer would just have omitted the anxiety of the experts, or any comment on their mental state, altogether.
 
A counter-example:  many years ago, when I was Dean, I sat in on several lectures of one of our faculty, a native of a Far East nation, because the  recommendation for his promotion was in my hands.  I had told him beforehand that I would sit in.  Nonetheless, he was offended, and to this day I do not know why.
 
So chalk it up to cultural differences and differences in expressed idiom.
 
Ruth
 
 
 
Dr. Schoenhofer visited us in Albuquerque, and I can say without hesitation that he is a charming and delightful person
 
 
Ruth F. Weiner, Ph. D.
ruthweiner at aol.com