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Both "extrovert" and "extravert" are correct. Contemporary language use does not always care about latin, however sorry I am for that. But the author of this p

by pepve 9y ago

Both "extrovert" and "extravert" are correct. Contemporary language use does not always care about latin, however sorry I am for that. But the author of this post goes even further, and uses both spellings in the same sentence! In extravert-introvert pairs, extroverts report on greater closeness than introverts That can't be right...

threepipeproblm 9y ago
Okay I did some digging Google n-grams isn't all that sympathetic to my account, in showing a long history for 'extrovert' and suggests 'extravert' is actively dying out. But the history may not go back far enough: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-difference-between-extraversion-and-extroversion/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-dif... 'Folklore has it that when Carl Jung was once asked which was the correct spelling—ExtrAvert or ExtrOvert—Jung's secretary wrote back something like, "Dr. Jung says it's ExtrAverted, because ExtrOverted is just bad latin."' [...] 'According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "The original spelling 'Extravert' is now rare in general use but is found in technical use in psychology." That's correct. If you look at scientific journal articles, virtually every paper uses the spelling ExtrAvert.'
jaggederest 9y ago
I believe in this case spelling is mimicking pronunciation. In my accent, at least, I pronounce the phrase 'extr_vert-introvert' with an open A, contrasting to the pursed O of introvert. But if I say the word 'extr_verts', by itself, I pronounce it with an O, identical to 'introvert'. It's difficult because for me, at least, in my accent, both are degrading to an unstressed vowel anyway, so it's a fine gradation.
35bge57dtjku 9y ago
Is intravert correct? I have to know if it's that symmetrical.
- threepipeproblm 9y ago
  No, 'intravert' is not correct AFAIK

by pepve 9y ago

threepipeproblm 9y ago

Okay I did some digging Google n-grams isn't all that sympathetic to my account, in showing a long history for 'extrovert' and suggests 'extravert' is actively dying out. But the history may not go back far enough: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-difference-between-extraversion-and-extroversion/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-dif... 'Folklore has it that when Carl Jung was once asked which was the correct spelling—ExtrAvert or ExtrOvert—Jung's secretary wrote back something like, "Dr. Jung says it's ExtrAverted, because ExtrOverted is just bad latin."' [...] 'According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "The original spelling 'Extravert' is now rare in general use but is found in technical use in psychology." That's correct. If you look at scientific journal articles, virtually every paper uses the spelling ExtrAvert.'

jaggederest 9y ago

I believe in this case spelling is mimicking pronunciation. In my accent, at least, I pronounce the phrase 'extr_vert-introvert' with an open A, contrasting to the pursed O of introvert. But if I say the word 'extr_verts', by itself, I pronounce it with an O, identical to 'introvert'. It's difficult because for me, at least, in my accent, both are degrading to an unstressed vowel anyway, so it's a fine gradation.

35bge57dtjku 9y ago

Is intravert correct? I have to know if it's that symmetrical.

threepipeproblm 9y ago
No, 'intravert' is not correct AFAIK