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 {{Image|Transfagarasan|png|A [[metaphor]] for immutable progress of civilisation, yesterday.}}
-''The [[JC]]’s very own coinages {{tm}}''</br>}}{{d|Perspective chauvinism|/pəˈspɛktɪv ˈʃəʊvɪnɪzm/|}}our own term for the fallacy of judging obsolete tricks, technologies or ideologies by contemporary standards — evaluation criteria that, [[Q.E.D.]], weren’t relevant when the old technologies or ideas were in fashion.
+''The [[JC]]’s very own coinages {{tm}}''</br>}}{{d|Perspective chauvinism|/pəˈspɛktɪv ˈʃəʊvɪnɪzm/|n|}}our own term for the fallacy of judging obsolete tricks, technologies or ideologies by contemporary standards — evaluation criteria that, [[Q.E.D.]], weren’t relevant when the old technologies or ideas were in fashion.
 This is a little like being told, when you are being dumped, “it’s not you; it’s me” — the only difference being in this case (i) it is not disingenuous, but true, and therefore (ii) the dump ''er'' is therefore a lot less likely to ''say'' it.