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What Has Happened to Everybody's Vocabulary and Diction?
Posted on 4/17/17 at 7:06 pm
Posted on 4/17/17 at 7:06 pm
It seems to me, that nowadays our vocabulary and the way we write and speak and the words we use are very...simplistic. I guess that's the best way to say it. Especially compared to letters written in history.
For example, how many people do you know would be able to write like this?
Made Famous in SPR.
Just seems like people had a more extensive and colorful vocabulary back around those times than today.
For example, how many people do you know would be able to write like this?
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Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.
Dear Madam,--
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,
A. Lincoln
Made Famous in SPR.
Just seems like people had a more extensive and colorful vocabulary back around those times than today.
This post was edited on 4/17/17 at 7:07 pm
Posted on 4/17/17 at 7:07 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
I blame texting.
Posted on 4/17/17 at 7:08 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Yeah. But those people back then sucked at texting
Posted on 4/17/17 at 7:09 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
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Just seems like people had a more extensive and colorful vocabulary back around those times than today.
They spent a lot less time bathing, giving them more time to learn vocabulary.
Posted on 4/17/17 at 7:09 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
A. Lincoln sounds like a nerd.
Posted on 4/17/17 at 7:09 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
It literally sounds like Lincoln had a thesaurus next to him and picked out certain words and replaced them with much less used synonyms.
I've done the same thing before.
I've done the same thing before.
Posted on 4/17/17 at 7:09 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Ebonicks be da way 2 geaux brah
This post was edited on 4/17/17 at 7:10 pm
Posted on 4/17/17 at 7:10 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
People text and social network, activities where brevity is valued over creative mastery of the language.
Whenever your friends and family are posting a picture of their dinners or their spread-cheeked anuses, a simple LOL...IDK...YOLO is all the validation that they're seeking from you.
Whenever your friends and family are posting a picture of their dinners or their spread-cheeked anuses, a simple LOL...IDK...YOLO is all the validation that they're seeking from you.
Posted on 4/17/17 at 7:10 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Twitter only allows 140 characters
Posted on 4/17/17 at 7:10 pm to kciDAtaE
Lincoln would text and drive a buggy at the same time.
Posted on 4/17/17 at 7:11 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
The Brain has the ability to see the message even as cryptic as it is
Posted on 4/17/17 at 7:11 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
My diction seems adequate
Posted on 4/17/17 at 7:12 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Nothing to do with vocabulary but my dad once wrote some cards to some kids from their church who were graduating. They were not able to read cursive writing because they didn't learn it in school. Had to have their parents read the cards.
Posted on 4/17/17 at 7:12 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
I bet you proofread your post 5 times before submitting. Based on your edit, you obviously still fricked up.
Posted on 4/17/17 at 7:12 pm to tigerbutt
Perhaps you should've used lexicon or vernacular in place of the word vocabulary?
Posted on 4/17/17 at 7:13 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Imagine that. A man who was incredibly accomplished and worked in a field that relied on rhetoric and speech was able to write eloquently.
Posted on 4/17/17 at 7:13 pm to DavidTheGnome
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My diction seems adequate
Is that what the sexcare workers tell you after you put cash on the barrelhead?
Posted on 4/17/17 at 7:14 pm to tigerbutt
Is saving private ryan on?
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