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Symbols of the Holy Spirit 2: Breath or a gentle breeze

On 30/08/201917/09/2019 By balaamIn God2 Comments

Symbols of the Holy Spirit 2: Breath or a gentle breeze There's a little game I used to play with friends online. Take a song lyric and use Google Translate to translate it through different languages, say from English to French to German to Spanish and back to English. Here's one I did from English …

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Person-centred language

On 31/07/201925/07/2019 By balaamIn Asperger's Syndrome., AutismLeave a comment

Person-first language and Political Correctness Much of my thinking on this comes from a blog from 2017. Language is a tool. We can use it to build people up or tear them down. Take the simple word quite. A British man shows an American friend a picture of his girlfriend. "She's quite pretty," says the …

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