Day 26

Raisin Debtor Part IV

Look at her, a prisoner of the gutter
Condemned by every syllable she utters.
By rights she should be taken out and hung
For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.

Why can't the English
Teach their children how to speak?
Norwegians learn Norwegian
The Greeks are taught their Greek.
In France every Frenchman
Knows his language from A to Zed.

Arabians learn Arabian
With the speed of summer lightning,
And the Hebrews learn it backwards
Which is absolutely frightening,
But use proper English, you're regarded as a freak.
Oh why can't the English learn to speak!

--Lerner and Loewe

Why can't the English-speaking zendenies of greater downtown blogville expressway themselves to a finer edge of a literary snickersnee of Occum ye faithful hairsplitter? Massages in a bloggle are a pandemic de rigueur mortis of verbal stimulation and neural passageway growth. I portend that a circumscribed vocabulary fosters thinking that mumbles and fumbles for expression, even in silent introspection. Our creation's crown is our opposable-thumb mental activity. When we read content in blogs that are representative of a fifth grader with bad spelling and grammar, we gorge on empty calories in tapping the shoulder of the adage "feed your head".

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