The Apology

[mstakenidentity]

I don't think there has been a moment since 9am in which I have not had tears in my eyes.

I am so indescribably happy that the government has done this.

I am proud.

Comments

[ristin.livejournal.com]

Generations overdue. Well it's a start. I hope "both sides" can put aside past differences and past grievances. Finally we have a foundation that can be built upon, not a rift keeping people divided and mired in the past.

[vox-diabolica.livejournal.com]

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Generations overdue

Do you have a lot of teenage mothers in your lineage?

[ristin.livejournal.com]

The Stolen Generation were children of indigenous descent who were forcibly taken from their homes in Aboriginal villages and tribes between 1910 and the early 1970s and put in missions and other institutions.

This started 98 years ago. Was your mother a hundred when she had you?

[vox-diabolica.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Factoid Furry! But my question still remains. If it is generations overdue, one would expect it to be more than one generation over due. There have only been two in that time (a generation is typically about fifty years). So either it's been a generation overdue or you have lots of generations in your tumbleweed family tree.

Take your pick.

[ristin.livejournal.com]

Fifty years to a generation? Okay then, if you say so. So by your heavily infated duration for a 'generation' that makes it two generations and still "generations" plural.

Judging by your other comments though you're just in this for the argument, but that's fine by me. As long as we're both enjoying ourselves. ^_^

[vox-diabolica.livejournal.com]

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So by your heavily infated duration for a 'generation' that makes it two generations and still "generations" plural.

'Infated' isn't a word, moron. I didn't realise that there was nobody alive who was older than fifty years.

[(Anonymous)]

a generation is typically about fiftytwenty years

there, fixed that for you.

[vox-diabolica.livejournal.com]

Gee, thanks, Anonymous! Anonymous appears to be from a family who breeds rapidly.

I'm sorry. I should have contextualised this. I was talking about civilised generations, which are about 50 years apart (usually known as the 'grandfather' unit). In your caravan park by the desert, I'm sure that there's only 20 years between you and your grandparents.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, so you're conveniently using a form of the word generation that doesn't actually mean generation as it is commonly defined.

In this day and age the definition of generation may be somewhat greater than the traditional 20 year span, but it is certainly no higher than mid thirties, most defnine it now as 30-33 years.

Your use of a so-called grandfather unit does not, therefore, invalidate the claim made that the apology is generations overdue, as the poster did not say "generations in grandfather units" overdue. They were referring to the standard definition of generation which is between 20 and 35 years.

You are an odd person, mate. You get upset over typos, redefine words to suit your arguments and then resort to personal attacks because I don't want to log into livejournal on a public computer.

[vox-diabolica.livejournal.com]

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Oh, so you're conveniently using a form of the word generation that doesn't actually mean generation as it is commonly defined.

No. That was you back in this comment (http://mstakenidentity.livejournal.com/440593.html?thread=2596881#t2596881).

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In this day and age the definition of generation may be somewhat greater than the traditional 20 year span, but it is certainly no higher than mid thirties, most defnine it now as 30-33 years.

You are talking complete and utter nonsense. The definition I'm using is - amazingly enough - common to both biologists and anthropologists. You are talking garbage. This definition of 'generation' has been in use since the early 1900s. Go read a book.

You're even stranger in that you're getting responses from this post sent to your email address. Did arguing really mean that much to you?