Weber spoke of an elective affinity between a form of religious belief (Protestantism) and a practical ethics (the work ethic of capitalism). His idea can be extended to explain how different groups come to have a basis for entering a single party.

One who is called a schizoposter may display signs of paranoid schizophrenia, through either word salad, which is a group of words or sentences that appear to make no sense, or just be jumbled words, or hypergraphia, which is the urge to write.

The sergeants-major were always on the watch to report us if we went out of bounds. […] The moment we saw the sergeant-major, off we scampered over hedge, ditch, bog, and ploughed land, leaving him to catch or identify us if he could! […] Of all the serjeants-major, Howe, of the C company, ran the swiftest. Howe enjoyed these chivies. He frequently omitted to report us if we gave him a good breathing.

June 18, charge to the Industrial Rehabilitiation Finance Board securing all sums which the chargees may be called upon to pay under or by reason of a guarantee;