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August 1, 2005
Freedom of Speech, or Language abuse?
As Americans we pride ourselves on the freedom to say anything we want, but has this freedom led to abuse of words? Have you ever found yourself listening to a presentation and instead of taking in the information presented, counting the presenters frequent or inappropriate use of a single word? From investment advisors to reporters, everyday innocent words such as "actually" and "essentially" are being abused, misused and overused by otherwise intelligent individuals. Please, lets police our own vocabularies to avoid further victimizing these words (as well as grating on the nerves of language snobs, such as myself).
Posted by Anna at August 1, 2005 2:23 PM
Comments
Actually I can feel for your side on this issue. Essentially what your saying is that we tend to lean on words to a point that they become base words for us, and we actually don't realize that we are essentially killing our language.
Posted by: firecop_35 at August 4, 2005 3:03 AM