"I was taught that seventy bazillion years ago by Miss Thistlebottom, so I can never change" seems to be the common excuse for all sorts of preposterous and ridiculous laziness and boneheadedness when it comes to matters of writing. I can only presume that these are people who live by the precept that what is once written can never be unwritten and that once taught something, they can never change.
They would be very happy in a fundamentalist Islamic state, or a Renaissance Italian monastery, but I wonder how they manage to function in the modern world without cell phones, CDs or MP3 players, email and all the other attributes of the Internet, food processors, cable or satellite television, or (in some cases) automatic transmission. They're the people on Downton Abbey who are appalled at the idea of electric lights ("who knows where all those little bits of electricity are going when you're not looking?"
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Date: 2011-01-15 09:36 pm (UTC)They would be very happy in a fundamentalist Islamic state, or a Renaissance Italian monastery, but I wonder how they manage to function in the modern world without cell phones, CDs or MP3 players, email and all the other attributes of the Internet, food processors, cable or satellite television, or (in some cases) automatic transmission. They're the people on Downton Abbey who are appalled at the idea of electric lights ("who knows where all those little bits of electricity are going when you're not looking?"