Ben Casnocha: “Inside baseball” refers to using jargon, specialized knowledge, acronyms, first names instead of full names. … They subtly increase the bond between the people in the know. … [It] reinforces a defined ingroup based on our common experiences, knowledge, vernacular. …
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I would like to add one comment. We as a society value verbal skill less for the poetry or the ability to clearly verbalize concepts, rather we value them for the ability to misguide others. People with better language skills are better hypocrites and we value this property.
My favorite example of this is the use of a specific form of ambiguity in paper chain letters - shout-outs that look Catholic to a Catholic, and Protestant to a Protestant (or invisible to the non-shouted-out group), are features that are associated with chain letter replication:
Many Ancient Prayer versions prescribe sending a copy one day at a time: ". . . he who will write it for nine days, commencing the day received . . ." [1908]. This keeps track of the deadline by counting it out. It also associates the chain letter with the Roman Catholic Novena devotion, which involves daily observances for nine consecutive days. This would have been apparent to Catholics at the time, but invisible to most Protestants. Collecting has revealed a small but long lasting niche in North America for an explicit Novena devotional chain letter [1945, 2000]. As discussed in Section 3.4, there is an advantage for a letter to be identified as one's own by different ethnic or religious groups. A similar device (ambiguity) may be at work in "This prayer was sent by Bishop Lawrence, recommending it to be rewritten and sent to nine other persons" [1905]. Bishop William Lawrence was the Episcopalian Bishop of Massachusetts and an author, well known among American Protestants of the time. Likely many Catholics would have presumed by his title that he shared their faith. Incidentally, Lawrence had nothing to do with the chain letter, but received complaints from all over the world for his alleged endorsement. [Links removed.]
Surely *many* male animals try to convince females that they have virtues that they do not actually have. If there is something distinctively human about hypocrisy, I think it needs more spelling out.
Australian butchers use retchub klat, a backwards-vocabularly, to comment on customers without them realising. Of course it doesn't work if someone has a nice pair of boobs.
I am fairly new to some of these ideas and so when you say, "Selective communication is a core capacity that enables humans to coordinate to hypocritically evade social norms, and I’ve argued that such hypocrisy is, after language, humanity’s most distinctive mental capacity," I feel there are many ways to challenge it. However, I would prefer to read some sort of sequence of posts that outline the definitions and meanings you're giving to these things, to avoid arguing against a straw-man and to simply learn more so I can see if my objections are credible.
Do you have an idea for what the important posts / papers / links are for understanding your theory of social hypocrisy, at least at a basic level? Maybe this is better saved for the monthly "open topic" post.
LV outlet are several businesses making many items and many of them are very enthusiastic about obtaining the top quality ones with the passage of time. It’s all-natural that the top quality goods like the gucci sneakers, sun shades or totes are very costly where the regular man will certainly find it hard to continue the buying with the passage of time.
I would like to add one comment. We as a society value verbal skill less for the poetry or the ability to clearly verbalize concepts, rather we value them for the ability to misguide others. People with better language skills are better hypocrites and we value this property.
Excellent. This is just what I was looking for. I did not know OB had this archive property.
One of his commenters correctly points out that there's already a term for this, albeit one with negative connotations: 'dog whistle'.
My favorite example of this is the use of a specific form of ambiguity in paper chain letters - shout-outs that look Catholic to a Catholic, and Protestant to a Protestant (or invisible to the non-shouted-out group), are features that are associated with chain letter replication:
Many Ancient Prayer versions prescribe sending a copy one day at a time: ". . . he who will write it for nine days, commencing the day received . . ." [1908]. This keeps track of the deadline by counting it out. It also associates the chain letter with the Roman Catholic Novena devotion, which involves daily observances for nine consecutive days. This would have been apparent to Catholics at the time, but invisible to most Protestants. Collecting has revealed a small but long lasting niche in North America for an explicit Novena devotional chain letter [1945, 2000]. As discussed in Section 3.4, there is an advantage for a letter to be identified as one's own by different ethnic or religious groups. A similar device (ambiguity) may be at work in "This prayer was sent by Bishop Lawrence, recommending it to be rewritten and sent to nine other persons" [1905]. Bishop William Lawrence was the Episcopalian Bishop of Massachusetts and an author, well known among American Protestants of the time. Likely many Catholics would have presumed by his title that he shared their faith. Incidentally, Lawrence had nothing to do with the chain letter, but received complaints from all over the world for his alleged endorsement. [Links removed.]
Surely *many* male animals try to convince females that they have virtues that they do not actually have. If there is something distinctively human about hypocrisy, I think it needs more spelling out.
Are you accusing people of what you are doing your self?
Try looking in the archives of this blog: http://www.overcomingbias.c...
Oops, vocabulary. Although vocabularly sounds useful.
Australian butchers use retchub klat, a backwards-vocabularly, to comment on customers without them realising. Of course it doesn't work if someone has a nice pair of boobs.
I am fairly new to some of these ideas and so when you say, "Selective communication is a core capacity that enables humans to coordinate to hypocritically evade social norms, and I’ve argued that such hypocrisy is, after language, humanity’s most distinctive mental capacity," I feel there are many ways to challenge it. However, I would prefer to read some sort of sequence of posts that outline the definitions and meanings you're giving to these things, to avoid arguing against a straw-man and to simply learn more so I can see if my objections are credible.
Do you have an idea for what the important posts / papers / links are for understanding your theory of social hypocrisy, at least at a basic level? Maybe this is better saved for the monthly "open topic" post.