Every month you'll get news and analysis of publications standards, trends, and practices. Normally a mild-mannered proofreader, I seized the opportunity to bombasticize. For a long time, I've thought English to be far too wordy. But it goes beyond the sheer number of words.
Nobody has the time to learn or practice rules any more.
Ninety-one different ways to say stupid strikes me as really dumb. Whoever came up with this moronic idea was obviously pretty dense. It must be set in stone somewhere that every word must have a set of definitions, the number of which must be no less than ten. With this mindset, it's a wonder anyone knows what anyone else is saying. We need more words like quagga .