Every other week my blog will feature a reposted work. I had been a contributor on two different sites that have since closed or no longer include blogs. I will be reposting pieces that had originally been featured on one of these two sites.
I just finished reading Language in America: a report on our deteriorating semantic environment. It is a collection of essays on, well, language in America. It was published in 1969 and it’s out of print (used copies are available on amazon). One of the editors is Neil Postman who is most famous for Amusing Ourselves to Death, a book that will change your life in magical ways. I’d like to share a few thoughts from the book if you’ll bear with me.
