We get the dinkum oil off him. He knows all the jockeys and trainers and everything.

If we are using Berne's principle that decontamination precedes deconfusion, the process of resolution (treatment direction) of associated script decisions can be considered to run parallel to this, but running in the opposite direction.

But could a demotivational process have begun in prelinguistic times and what we see today be a continuation of that?

Scratch a potato-phile, find an opinion on mashing styles.