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Subject: Re: Jonathan Swift published a proposal to regulate English (22-2-1712)
Date: 5 Mar 2024 12:15:52 GMT
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Antonio Marques <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote or quoted:
>Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> wrote:
>>Mentally disturbed is something of an exaggeration. All I meant was
>>that some educated poeple are resistant to change for that reason.
>What you actually did was to add insult to injury.

  And then one could just as well cite psychological mechanisms at
  work on the part of some of the proponents of the new rules: If a
  teacher or pupil is forced by the school to write in certain ways
  that are actually bad, a cognitive dissonance arises ("I do it,
  but it's bad."), which the teacher or pupil resolves by convincing
  himself that this new way of writing is actually quite good.