Charles Yang Quotes

Is Language Actually Getting Better, Shorter, And Easier? Nowadays We Often Hear Exactly The Opposite. Teenager Slang Is Awful, Students No Longer Learn Latin, Our Children - Not To Mention Our President - Cannot Put Together A Grammatical Sentence. The Whimsical Poet Ogden Nash Was At Least Half Serious In His "Laments For A Dying Language":

Coin Brassy Words At Will, Debase The Coinage;
We're In An If-you-cannot-lick-them-join Age,
A Slovenliness-provides-its-own-excuse Age,
Where Usage Overnight Condones Misusage.
Farewell, Farewell To My Beloved Language,
Once English, Now A Vile Orangutanguage.

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