There is a psychological phenomenon where we tend to believe that the views and opinions that we hold now are the ones that we have always held. I can't remember the name of it but I remember reading all about it in one of David McRaney's books. I have just encountered it first hand. I was reading through some of my earliest posts on Wordcraft and discovered a couple where I find it hard to believe that it was me that wrote them. There is one, for example where I insist that I would always use "can" for ability and "may" for permission. I know that I don't do that and I would even teach that while this is certainly what their (Chinese) textbooks say, it is far far more common to hear "can" for permission nowadays than to hear "may" and that there are unlikely to be circumstances where using "can" would cause any confusion at all.
Weirder than that though... I discovered an early post (a long time pre-Brexit) where I was criticising the Uk membership of the EU on exactly the grounds that the Brexiteers later used in getting the UK out of Europe... something which I now believe to have been the greatest political blunder any UK Government has ever made.

Isn't it weird how, when we look at stuff we wrote almost twenty years ago we can't believe that it was something we ever said or believed?

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Originally posted by BobHale:

Isn't it weird how, when we look at stuff we wrote almost twenty years ago we can't believe that it was something we ever said or believed?

And I don't know how I feel - other than just old - that my earliest Wordcraft posts were nearly twenty years ago!

As Kermit the Frog said, "Time's fun when you're having flies!"

I can't remember what the kerfluffle was about that caused us to split from AWAD. Senility, I guess - or a tempest in a pee pot.