After reading the article I feel less apologetic for the fact that I seldom use a Thesaurus. I prefer to put my limited energy into reading more good books. Some of the views of the author seem absurd. Roget was clearly a polymath, but to suggest there are few polymaths today simply overlooks the tremendous increase in information to be mastered so that it would be impossible today for any man like Lord Bacon to take all knowledge for his province.
Whatever the faults of modern literature are, they do not arise from use of thesauri.

It would be interesting to know how many board members use a thesaurus frequently.