Grammar Nazis Beware!

Practical Stoicism

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Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Are you a grammar nazi? Do you attempt to invalidate arguments based on spelling or pronunciation errors? Well then, I've got a particular grammarian I'd like you to meet. -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join our Stoic mentoring community : https://link.stoicismpod.com/path -- View a list of our sponsors : https://link.stoicismpod.com/sponsors -- Visit our website : https://stoicismpod.com Check out our reading list : https://stoicismpod.com/suggested-reading Read our articles : https://stoicismpod.com/category/articles -- Online copy of Meditations (Long) : https://link.stoicismpod.com/meditations-long Online copy of Meditations (Casaubon) : https://link.stoicismpod.com/meditations-casaubon Online copy of Seneca's Letters : https://link.stoicismpod.com/letters -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.1	Good morning, Prakatan. Today is Monday. That means it's time for us to revisit Marcus and his
0:42.9	meditations. Today is book one, meditation seven. If you're listening to the free version of the
0:47.9	podcast, you don't get any ads today because this meditation is so short and sweet, it feels
0:53.8	silly to run an ad in front of it.
0:55.7	So let's not waste any time. Instead, we'll get right into it. From Alexander the Grammarian
1:01.3	to be unreprovable myself and not reproachfully to reprehend any man for barbarism or solacism
1:10.4	or any false pronunciation, but dexterously, by way of
1:15.0	answer or testimony or confirmation of the same, taking no notice of the word, to utter it as it
1:22.3	should have been spoken, or by some other such close and indirect admonition, handsomely and civilly, to tell him of it.
1:31.9	Uh-oh, grammar Nazis, beware, seems like Alexander the grammarian isn't going to stand for your nonsense.
1:38.3	But seriously, how often have we, in the middle of a heated comment section, Flame War, said something like,
1:43.9	Sh, shows which you know, Dave X-1910, you can't even spell there or there correctly.
1:50.3	A person's literacy in an argument is only a way of defeating their argument
1:54.8	if you are not capable of defeating it in any other way,
1:58.3	and in that way, it is actually a defeat of your own position.
2:03.3	What should we do instead? Well, if in the middle of a debate, we should carry on because we know
2:08.9	exactly what they meant, didn't we? Of course we do. Otherwise, how would we be in a position to
2:14.8	correct them in the first place? If we know they use the wrong
2:18.2	word or wrong spelling, that means we know what they were trying to say or spell. So have some
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