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a heartfelt appeal
I'm thinking I'd like a worldwide ban on gamerspeak. I'm sure it seemed really clever at one point, but it's getting to be just annoying and juvenile now.
We have a big, wide, wonderful language, people, with a huge capacity for expressiveness. Yes, I understand that in a fast-moving game it may be more convenient to truncate, mangle, and crush language to as to express oneself quickly. But, really, do we need to do it in everyday life? Wouldn't it be more amusing, more agreeable, more creative, more entertaining, more satisfying to employ the full range of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and their various cousins; to use rhetoric in its various incarnations; to expound, instruct, explain, embroider, and enliven without restricting oneself to this cramped and childish argot, this cliquish cant?
Please! Think of the words! :-)
We have a big, wide, wonderful language, people, with a huge capacity for expressiveness. Yes, I understand that in a fast-moving game it may be more convenient to truncate, mangle, and crush language to as to express oneself quickly. But, really, do we need to do it in everyday life? Wouldn't it be more amusing, more agreeable, more creative, more entertaining, more satisfying to employ the full range of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and their various cousins; to use rhetoric in its various incarnations; to expound, instruct, explain, embroider, and enliven without restricting oneself to this cramped and childish argot, this cliquish cant?
Please! Think of the words! :-)
