Interesting read... ^_^ "“When people, especially publicly, correct others’ mistakes, a lot of that has to do with signaling to other people... People are trying to signal their expertise, because being able to identify mistakes indicates that you know more about something than the person who committed the error.” ~ Prof. Robert Kurzban "“If I need to feel good about my language skills, one way that I could do that would be to give myself evidence that my language skills are awesome. Another is to give myself evidence that other people’s language skills suck. So by putting down other people, I can feel better about myself.” ~ Prof. Benoît Monin According to Monin— hen individuals feel as though they have something to prove, either to themselves or others, language bullying is more likely to occur.... Monin suggests that, for some language bullies, acquisition of specialized, technical information—knowledge of an oft-mistaken definition, for instance, or mastery of a particularly tricky grammar rule—is at least partly undertaken in anticipation of an ego-boosting endgame. So language bullies love company. But the only people who love language bullies are other language bullies." (Interesting excerpts from the article) *chuckling*
Posted on: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 13:33:10 +0000
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