Call a spade the Queen of Hearts
I protest every linguistic movement I know from the Victorians on. Caroll had them all too neatly nailed with his Humpty Dumpty: "'When I use a word ... it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'"
So I will use words always rooted as deep as I can know them, in writing as far back as I can read. I will choose every word in accordance with a metaphor that starts at the root and ends at the stem. I will learn, however long it takes, to treat words fairly.
I say: Do not uproot words. Whose meaning do you give them? To which master shall they bow? Let words serve no second master.
So I will use words always rooted as deep as I can know them, in writing as far back as I can read. I will choose every word in accordance with a metaphor that starts at the root and ends at the stem. I will learn, however long it takes, to treat words fairly.
I say: Do not uproot words. Whose meaning do you give them? To which master shall they bow? Let words serve no second master.