Horace, Ars Poetica Men ever had, and ever will have, leave To coin new words well suited to the age, Word are like leaves, some wither ev'ry year, And ev'ry year a younger race succeeds. It has always been accepted, and always will be, that words stamped with the mint-mark of the day should be brought into currency. Nothing can be so clearly and carefully expressed that it cannot be utterly misinterpreted. Only dead languages stay still, which is why Latin and Ancient Greek are the best languages for grammarians. They can legislate for dead languages, without finding that the languages have moved on while they were writing, and made their rules about correctness and incorrectness obsolete.
All pro athletes are bilingual.
They speak English and profanity. The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. Ruth Hubbard, Women Look at Biology Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world. Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca.