Re:Social Networks: It's worse than you think (2020)
by a_e_k on Sunday September 12, 2021 @04:43AM
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I discovered just this evening that the approach I try to use to correct my kids on that sort of thing was described by Marcus Aurelius:
> From Alexander the grammarian: to avoid fault-finding and not to censure in a carping spirit any who employ an exotic phrase, a solecism, or harsh expression, but oneself to use, neatly and precisely, the correct phrase, by way of answer or confirmation or handling of the actual question—the thing, not its verbal expression—or by some other equally happy reminder.
> From Alexander the grammarian: to avoid fault-finding and not to censure in a carping spirit any who employ an exotic phrase, a solecism, or harsh expression, but oneself to use, neatly and precisely, the correct phrase, by way of answer or confirmation or handling of the actual question—the thing, not its verbal expression—or by some other equally happy reminder.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Meditations_of_the_Empero...