On the subject of Received Opinion (see below), some of you might remember the cafe proprieter described in A la Recherche:
"He was in the habit of always comparing what he heard or read with an already familiar canon, and felt his admiration quicken if he could detect no difference.. If he did not find the terms that were familiar to him in the remarks of a customer or the columns of a newspaper he would pronounce the article boring or the speaker insincere."
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