I seriously doubt if any language has ever been deliberately structured in a way which promotes the expression of abstract thought. Most, if not all, languages are responses to externalities - the need to cooperate, to describe physical issues, to grease the wheels of human interaction. The current predeliction for using business terms works two ways. I don't know how many times I've heard "bottoming out" used since hitting Blighty's palsied shores. Whatever happened to "getting to the bottom of"?


The idiot also known as Capfka ...