Yes, I think they could. Suddenly I couldn't understand anything. After years of fussing about the pathetic, baffled language of students, I realized that it was not in their labored writings that bad language dwelt. This, this inane gabble, this was bad language. Here was a man taking the public money for the work of his mind and darkening counsel by words without understanding.
Words never fail.
Who speaks reason to his fellow men bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable dose of inanity beyond which the mind cannot remain reasonable. Irrationality, like buried chemical waste, sooner or later must seep into all the tissues of thought. This man had offered me inanity.