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January 16, 2012
"The actual vocabulary of our present youth seems to me reduced to about 1,000 words or so."
"Like", "whatever", "you know", "cool" and other pop culture fillers now substitute for entire phrases,a sort of modern porcine grunting. The Greeks used particles to accentuate vocabulary and guide syntax; we used them instead of vocabulary. Our syntax, both written and oral, is reverting to âSpot is a dogâ: noun, verb, predicateâperiod. How did incomprehensible slang, spiced with vulgarity, become an object of emulation? --Works and Days » So Why Read Anymore?
Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 16, 2012 11:55 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.