A reader emails:
"A post-literate age." This term resonated with me the moment you
uttered it. I’m now seeing it almost daily.
The requests to ‘dumb down’ the language are approaching comedic, and I currently operate at government levels. I was asked to explain the difference between ‘woman’ and ‘women’ just last week.
In response to one recent request, I (in totally undisciplined irritation) asked if they’d prefer the document produced in brown paper and crayon. I try to be patient, but it’s getting harder.
Once again, your blog is a bastion of sanity.
The requests to ‘dumb down’ the language are approaching comedic, and I currently operate at government levels. I was asked to explain the difference between ‘woman’ and ‘women’ just last week.
In response to one recent request, I (in totally undisciplined irritation) asked if they’d prefer the document produced in brown paper and crayon. I try to be patient, but it’s getting harder.
Once again, your blog is a bastion of sanity.
We
are living in the Crazy Years. It falls to us to build fortresses and
monasteries of sanity. It is our responsibility to preserve knowledge and
truth. It is our honor to stand up for that which is rather than that which
someone feels it should be. And it is our responsibility to show up for the
future, in order to ensure that the insane do not inherit the Earth.