the English language is so rich with amazing words....may we not limit ourselves to a diet of verbal junk food.....
let us desire to expand our vocabulary and thereby lift the art of speaking and communicating to that of our founders.....rich, poignant, intellectually stimulating, lacking in wasteful verbosity!
Another unfortunate trait of our society is the use of profanity. Some do not seem able to string together a simple sentence without at least one vulgar expression in it. This is not a matter of freedom of speech, but of common decency. One can, and should be able to, express one's ideas sans vulgar and profane words. An inability to do so demonstrate's, as our own grandfather was want to say, demonstrates an ignorance of the English language. One mark of the Founders was their way with words. If we wish to see their like again, we should strive to improve our own language and the ability to express our ideas. The loss of that plays into the hands of tyrants and despots.
"The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish, and wicked practice, of profane cursing and swearing (a Vice heretofore little known in an American Army) is growing into fashion; he hopes the officers will, by example, as well as influence, endeavour to check it, and that both they, and the men will reflect, that we can have little hopes of the blessing of Heaven on our Arms, if we insult it by our impiety, and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense, and character, detests and despises it."
~ George Washington, General Orders on Profanity (August 3, 1776)
