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Article: Impacts the language.(view on the usage of the English language)(Brief Article)
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- St. Louis Journalism Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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The dumbing down of the English language continues at a slow, steady, depressing pace, and one of the more egregious examples is the concept of using any word as a verb just for the sheer hell of it. Maybe some consider it cool, or trendy, or literary, or perhaps they just don't know the difference. There are many examples out there, and as if it were a contagious--and fatal--disease, the reader should not be exposed to the bad habit.
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