Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: Jonathan Swift published a proposal to regulate English (22-2-1712) Date: 5 Mar 2024 12:15:52 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 12 Expires: 1 Feb 2025 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: References: <877civp1ys.fsf@parhasard.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de SyE4yc363dHArBJKIRfa9Q3/D1PF1vKV9xI1t41hHujKQq Cancel-Lock: sha1:P0Jewb50cZix9e8l/SIgje7YOig= sha256:Vd661jO84gi06Vgn7F0K4Al+REVqt5IBxtWsP1L0r3A= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2024 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US Accept-Language: de-DE-1901, en-US, it, fr-FR Antonio Marques wrote or quoted: >Adam Funk 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.