"I'm not against changes in language. ... I love anything that is going to make language richer and stronger. But when words are used in a way that is going to weaken language, it has nothing to do with the beautiful way that they can wriggle and wiggle and develop and enrich our speech, but instead it is impoverishing, diminishing. If our language ( Read more... )

I'm doing what might be called "boycotting" the Olympics. I'm not watching it, and letting people know why. I've very little idea about who's leading, though I'm sure it will remind us of the USA-USSR showdowns of old, only with a different communist nation of similar moral decrepitude. I do know Finland got a gold medal. Ain't that cute?

I play ( Read more... )

Okay, due to information that some rather strange folk have been reading my journal, I've decided to make it friends-only from now on. Those of you who read this and haven't been added to my friends list, please respond to this message and I'll make sure you're added.