[Commons-Law] On langauge

[Jeebesh Bagchi]

Received this mail. What do you all say about it.? best jeebesh

from: <sjones at culture.com.au>

at the risk of being considered rude and imperialistic, your statement 
in the CFP for Contested Commons/Trespassing Publics - A Conference on 
Inequalities, Conflicts and Intellectual Property:   "This conference 
aspires to interrogate the philosophical persuasions, cultural dynamics, 
political economy and legal grids that constitute the contemporary 
consensus. "   please stop using the word interrogate when you simply 
mean question - interrogate is an americanism of the worst order, it is 
aggressive and mystificatory at the same time, it applies the act of 
terrorism onto the subject and becomes just another use of the language 
of the military as it infects the real speech of the people.   should 
I offer a paper on the devolution of language as used by modern american 
philosophy in its attempts to sound cool and french while trying to take 
over the world?   let us resume the old speech of politeness and plain 
understanding - if we wish to question the politics then we need to be 
able to speak to people in ways they can understand, not frighten them 
off with this aggressive language   Stephen Jones