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Existing along a continuum - Off topic thread

  • 24-10-2016 10:37PM
    #1
    Ihglcc
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    It may surprise you to know that DISABILITY…... Can be understood…. as existing along a continuum.

    What does that mean? existing along a continuum


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  • #2
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Mod This may be an interesting discussion point but we need a bit more info - who said it and why, what was the context?

    Meantime I will turn it into an off-topic thread (there are others but they are pretty much zombies by now) and see how we go. It makes a good title! :D


  • #3
    Ihglcc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭Ihglcc


    looksee wrote: »
    Mod This may be an interesting discussion point but we need a bit more info - who said it and why, what was the context?

    Meantime I will turn it into an off-topic thread (there are others but they are pretty much zombies by now) and see how we go. It makes a good title! :D

    I was reading about disability in Ireland and the more i read the more i was shocked at the treatment of these people. but one comment said It may surprise you to know that DISABILITY Can be understood as existing along a continuum.

    so I'm not sure what to put here really I just wondered what this continuum is, could it be one end being a normal healthy person to the other end being completely disabled perhaps?


  • #4
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I am a bit inclined to think this is not really a topic for this forum, more for somewhere like the English (language) forum. It isn't saying anything very relevant or useful, I would think that the definition that you have suggested may be what they were getting at, but it is a bit self evident. And why should we be surprised? As I said, we would need the context to get an idea of what the writer was talking about.


  • #5
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,076 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    Ihglcc wrote: »
    I was reading about disability in Ireland and the more i read the more i was shocked at the treatment of these people. but one comment said It may surprise you to know that DISABILITY Can be understood as existing along a continuum.

    so I'm not sure what to put here really I just wondered what this continuum is, could it be one end being a normal healthy person to the other end being completely disabled perhaps?

    Provide a link to where you read this ...


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