Item: English under attack. While I’m the first one to find attempts to control the evolution of modern languages futile (the French Academy is a waste of time, for example), I decry Hollywood’s and Madison Avenue’s redefinition of perfectly good words. Language evolves and the evolution is often Darwinian: “Awesome” is now accepted as a slang term; “cool” is reverting to its normal form, except for baby boomers’ vernacular. But the title of a recent movie about orcas called Black Fish is jus...
Published on April 17, 2014 04:00