Posted in Worldview, Missionary Folklore, Missionaries on May 30th, 2007 34 Comments »
Steve M. over at Within the Bubble wrote about an interesting mission experience (interesting in the “you have got to be kidding me” kind of way) and it got me thinking about all the times on my mission (no, I was never AP, not even a ZL, just a lowly DL for a few months […]
Posted in Mormon Humor, Missionary Folklore on May 28th, 2007 6 Comments »
While we often talk about stereotypes as a bad thing and are encouraged to get rid of them, as a folklorist I find stereotypes fascinating. They encode a lot of cultural knowledge that is useful (either practically, or for purposes of understanding culture). If one take the evolutionary position of memetics, these stereotypes persist because […]
Posted in Worldview, Missionary Folklore, Mormon-speak, Lost Tribes on May 17th, 2007 19 Comments »
Glenn has invited me to be a guest poster on his blog, so I thought I’d start by posting on a topic I did some research on a number of years ago: the use of etymological/source language arguments to prove Gospel points. I have four examples:
Perhaps the most common example of this topic I’ve heard […]
Posted in Mormon Humor, Missionary Folklore, Language Blunders on May 11th, 2007 4 Comments »
Some of the most popular missionary stories are the ones that deal with language blunders – either our own or someone else’s. Here are a few of the ones I collected over the years. To view more examples, click here. And of course, if you would like to add your own, please […]
Posted in Missionary Folklore on May 5th, 2007 7 Comments »
Whenever I tell people that I studied Mormon folklore for about ten years in graduate school, they almost always respond with a curious “folklore?” then a polite “huh – that’s interesting” and then they tell me some story they have heard and ask me if it’s true. It has made me think that what […]
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