No problem, I wasn't well-versed enough in the subject matter to know if the example was accurate, but I'll take your word for it. Thanks for your diligence!
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In regards to the seeming contradiction listed in the "Other" section, where Jacques Lacan claimed he was deliberately attempting to confound people that tried to understand what he said, but liked it when people could retell his ideas in a more accessible manner, I don't think the contradiction is as big as it appears.
If someone can not only retell your ideas, but reword them so more people can understand them, it indicates that they have an intimate understanding of them, and very possibly share a like mind. By making the ideas difficult to understand, you make the ability to understand them an indication of intelligence. Combining these two, it's possible that what he liked wasn't people that could retell his ideas, but people both smart enough to understand them and on the same wavelength as him.
I think a link to It's Not Supposed to Win Oscars should be added to it, but I can't figure out where: Compare? Contrast? See also?
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I'll add it, thanks for the suggestion.
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Pulled this one:
I'm not aware of any evidence suggesting that the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature spelt a word wrong on every page of four lengthy manuscripts and only subsequently decided it was easier to write the explanation which appears in the foreword to The Hobbit and Appendix F of LOTR rather than send his publisher a quick note saying "s/dwarves/dwarfs". In fact, The Other Wiki says the opposite happened; the publishers changed it to "dwarfs" and he said they were wrong. You might choose to believe this was him saving face, but like I said, there's no evidence of this.
On a more trivial note, the spelling isn't as universal as the entry makes it sound. Cheery Littlebottom and Gotrek Gurnisson are fantasy creature dwarfs.
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