> I was convinced that all these traps had been designed to keep outsiders out, and to allow people to show their level of education While this is not the orig

> I was convinced that all these traps had been designed to keep outsiders out, and to allow people to show their level of education While this is not the original reason, this is one of the reasons not to change things. For example, ‘distinguishing educated and ignorant people’ had been named a reason to keep Ѣ in the Russian alphabet (it was eventually removed after the revolution).