Tutoring doesn't fix everything, 1868 edition

My most recent acquisition is a German book on essay writing for German students from 1868, though the book I own is a later edition from 1893. The author, Karl Leo Cholevius, a German teacher teaching at a Gymnasium, issues his advice in letter format to an imaginary addressee who is an Abi or A-level student in need of essay writing advice.

The book, Praktische Anleitung zur Abfassung Deutscher Aufsätze (Practical Guide to Writing German Essays) was a success at the time because it wasn't a collection of rhetorical figures of speech, but offered a how-to approach for, as the author says, "weaker students" who might require it. As one of the few of its kind it was an immediate success at the time.

In the second letter (and the second paragraph in the excerpt below), he addresses tutoring and its lack of usefulness when it comes to essay writing:



I'm too lazy to translate, but the short version is that he made the experience that it's usually the sons of rich fathers who'd like some tutoring a couple of months before their finals and think that paying for private lessons will fix everything.

Right now, I can think of three students I've been tutoring in the course of this school year to whom this applies. Heh.

"slut shaming" in NSM

As a hobby linguist I've been curious about Goddard's and Wierzbicka's natural semantic metalanguage/semantic primes as an L2 teaching and learning tool for a while, and I've been trying to apply it to various concepts I've encountered so far with varying success.

The notion of cultural scripts I find particularly interesting, and I've been trying to apply those to some cultural scripts of our own.

( Here's some example of cultural scripts:  )

Here's a table of semantic primes (Goddard, 2002): 


So what does that give us for "slut shaming"?

I got something like this: 

[people think like this:]

I want to say you are a bad person. Because of this I say you do things with your body and many other people's bodies.
It is good to do things with your and one other person's body, but not many people's - that makes you a bad person.
I want people to know that I know this is bad.
You are a person to whom I can say, "You are a bad person", and you cannot do bad things to me because of this.
People will think it is true if I say to you,
"You are a bad person, and you are doing bad things with your body"
I want you to think that you are a bad person.
 

 

...which leaves out the gendered double-standard, and its still pretty choppy. I wish we'd have had courses on this at uni, though they probably wouldn't have done me any good, given that I'm not a linguist.

Anyone have any ideas?