スレッドを立てるまでもない質問スレッド Part 368

The OED Loves Me Not

>>950 で引用した長い文脈を土台にして、そこに主な語句の意味合いについて
私の解釈を書き加えていきます。私の書き加えた部分には、★などの印をつけます。

> People who lack confidence in their knowledge of good English
> would like to have each spelling, pronunciation, meaning,
> and grammatical usage decided for them ★(= for those people)★, once and for all,
> so that they could know that one ★(= one spelling, one pronunciation, one meaning, etc.)★ is right and another is wrong.
> They feel uncertain when choices are clearly permissible.

> Partly because they would like to have a fixed standard
> to settle all questions of usage, they come to believe
> that one ★(= a standard, such a standard, such a fixed standard?)★ exists and operates, and constantly
> repeat judgments and rules without examining the basis for them ●(=the judgments and rules)●.

> https://power-of-awareness.com/entry/2022/09/05/030000