I guess it is a way of distinguishing one's self from the masses. Through the use of expanded vocabulary one can leave others to appear academically challenged even though the meaning in the expressions are the same. The other end of the spectrum might be over simplified with little jargon phrases like "git r done" and now with text messaging abbreviations it is anyone's guess where we are heading linguistically. At least we didn't get corralled into ebonics as a second language; we haven't ventured too far from Babel's tower have we?
On Aug 30, 10:10 pm, gruff <[email protected]> wrote: > "... On Aug 30, 7:54 pm, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: ..." > > > Simplification is the key, imho. > > In more ways then one. I don't know why human beings have to take > something that should be very simple and with flowery and obtuse > thought and word make it damn near indecipherable. More people need > to shave with Occam's Razor. (Damn, that's become my second most > useful reference next to Pogo's comment.)
