LL-L "Orthography" 2006.01.13 (01) [E]

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13 January 2006 * Volume 04
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From: globalmoose at t-online.de <globalmoose at t-online.de>
Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2006.01.12 (03) [E]

Ron wrote:
>But this will probably never happen anyway, given people's fear-based
>defense of the status quo.

What makes you think this is fear? Try love. Comfort. Convenience.
Feeling happy and at home. Common sense. Courage, even, to stand by your
written language like you would by a quirky old relative. "Fear" sounds
very negative and seems to have certain connotations.

Gabriele Kahn

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Orthography

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and 
strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." [H. P. Lovecraft]

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened 
of the old ones."    [John Cage]"

"Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human 
knowledge and happiness." [Max Leopold Ernst]

"The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with 
which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first 
appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen." [Aldous 
Huxley]

"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them." [Titus Livius]

"The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status 
quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain 
is the pain of a new idea." [Martin Luther King]

"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." [Mark 
Twain]

Reinhard/Ron 

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