Extra - vert — the spelling and more
John Beebe is being interviewed, and to the interviewer he says,
First of all, remember that you have extraverted, not extroverted thinking, despite the efforts of spell-checkers and dictionaries to conform Jung’s notion of extraversion to parallel introversion, ignoring the Latin root of the word. I prefer Jung’s spelling, because the “extra” reminds me of “Extra, extra, read all about it,” the egregious tendency of extraverted thinking to spread its own point of view as widely as possible.”
It reminds me of Peter Geyer saying that Jung used the spelling of “extravert” to indicate that with extraverts you get a little something “extra.”
I confess, that association appeals to me: “Extra, extra, read all about it!”
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