[Gllug] BETT at Olympia (veering into that whole language thing again)

[Tethys]

Dylan writes:

>On the one hand, there is the /outside/ view of the disabled
>community - 'handicapped' is associated with (now almost unheard)
>terms like 'spastic', 'joey', 'deaf and dumb', etc. by both sides,
>and use of the term can (and does) perpetuate the attitude that
>disabled persons need 'help' in a patronising sense.

Hmmm. I suspect this is just another example of someone with their
head stuck too far up their backside. I (and I'm sure the majority
of people) treat "handicapped" and "disabled" interchangably. To
associate one with "joey", "spastic", etc, but not the other seems
bizarre...

Nor was I aware that "deaf and dumb" had negative connotations.
The only deaf and dumb people I've met were quite happy to refer
to themselves as such. Admittedly, it was a long time ago, and I
suppose things may have changed since then.

In a vain attempt to drag this back on topic, has anyone had much
experience with the Linux/MIPS port? I've been trying to compile
up Mozilla for PS2 Linux, but it segfaults on startup. Gdb seems
to be implying that the fault is in dlopen(), which implies a
buggy glibc. Anyone else come across similar problems?

Tet

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