"The trouble with so much modern language is that it doesn't represent real thought; it's prefabricated construction, lowered into place with no regard for its surroundings."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,664557,00.htmlThus reads the start of Simon Hoggart's latest attack on mondern language. I am sure that many of you may agree with him - as I do in many respects. But haven't we gained anything from the new ways in which we use language to communicate? There are some positive sides to the use of cliches, argot, the catch phrases, and the over use of business jargon in normal conversation, arn't there? There must be a deeper scrutiny of the roots of language available to us than ever before, some kind of deeper insight, right?
Please help me refutate or alleast find redeeming sides to living in a world where language is used and misused as just another commodity.
