…those bizarre arguments tend to be made by professional politicians who really don’t like the increased choice that AV gives to voters. Every argument they make against AV seems to have at its heart the point that “You the voter should not be allowed think or do that”. Voters, on the other hand, voting under an AV system, think “I really like her, he’s okay, and I can’t stand that other guy with the beard”. The professional politicians on the No side just hate that voters should be given permission by AV to even think like that.
One more for those who are interested in language– The Empire of the Word, a look at how languages survive and spread. Spoiler: it’s a lot more complicated than “a language is a dialect with an army and a navy”.