I’ll admit I was rather ignorant growing up and the first time I had a conversation with someone and I pronounced Iran as “I ran” everyone roasted the shit outta me and shut me down, which like fair whatever. But my point is the pronunciation is secondary if you get the concept; that’s kinda the point of language and accents in general. If we have to pronounce every country or place as its residents call it then we should roast and ignore every English speaker that says “Germany” instead of Deutschland.
If you know you’re wrong but still don’t change, it’s also a sign of something
I guess maybe. But it’s not anything relevant.
Consider:
If someone says that 2+2=4, they’re right.
If someone says that 2+2=5, they’re wrong.
If the person who says that 2+2=4 is a blithering idiot and a compulsive liar, they’re still right.
If the person who says that 2+2=5 is a world-renowned mathematical genius, they’re still wrong.
And if you base your choice between those competing claims on the people who make them rather than analyzing the claims themselves, you’ll be wrong too.
2+2 is 5 for very large values of 2.
When I wrote that post, I was pretty sure that somebody would try to do an end run on “2+2=5 is wrong” to try to undermine the point.
There are just too many people , especially on the internet, who have based their self-affirmation on ad hominem for an illustration of its inherent failure to go unchallenged.