(Following is the opinion of Ray Curren)

As part of being an amateur psychologist (and everyone that works in education is at least an amateur psychologist), I know that people’s opinions of a situation can be easily altered by a subtle changing of a word here or there.

For instance, as studies have shown, if someone sees a car crash and that is asked how fast the cars were going when they “smashed” into each other, you get a much higher number than if you replace “smashed” with “bumped” or “contacted” (you also may have learned this in law school).

Continue reading “A.J. English Returns, Let’s Move On” →