Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-20

scorce this for the nature of a ranti-
pole would be to unfit him for his Pc
culiar work. The very operosity of
his thoughts opitulates him by doing
away with any nitency which might
be disastrous in his operations with
slow moving nature.
In agrestie districts fewer words arc
used than in towns where the con-
tents bills of the evening papers are
brangled before every ones eyes, and
interest in public events is frequently
at white heat The effect is hilarious.
because the man in the street reads
what he does not always understand,
and therefore sometimes jaculates
phrases AT his fellows which he him
self does not comprehend and these
can hardly be reckoned in his voeab-
ulary. 1t lis this deeeptious appear
ance of wide vocabulary. collected
by edacious and furacious bus driv-
ers, and thrown off i'm raillery, that
makes the observer credit the town
man with more words than the coun-
try man, whereas the country man
probably understands his ten words
better than the town man his
chiliad, The aspect of the question
incides upon another: 1t is not al
ways the fluent man who uses the
most words in the aspect Of the ques-
ton we are now considering. One
man who has read much speaks little,
hisS thinking and speaking yoeabu-
laries are dirempt and Instantaneous.
His sentences are astriet, and he Is
willing to let any alger beauish crea-
ture talk him down by vain repetition,
The Deceptious Fop.
The dimication is undeniablY un-
equal, for to an entooker the phrases
poured forth by the fop are decep-
tious, being the more imposing, how
ever bodged and badly constructed.
The parvity of the vocabulary is hid
den by the procacious manner in
which he repeats the words he has.
1t is necessary, therefore, to elute any
ambage from our minds and distin-
guish clearly between the number OF
words in use, otherwise the subject
will be so incrassated as not To admit
Of solution. Language maturates by
time, and every tongue is filled with
changing words. Ii is difficult 10
nuncupate the mistion of foreign
words which have combined to form
our mellisonant English language. but
any language which did not show
signs of growth would be marcid
Like a lubric stream which cleanses
itself by dropping impurities every
hundred yards or so, our language
while absorbing new words from
every side, drops the NINETY which
are not required, and bears on only
those which really serve to enubilatt
our meaning: thus il becomes more
luculent instead of more lutulent witt
the additions.
1t would be an ineoneeivably macf.
| lent language which contained only
words from one source. and which
! did not draw supplies from any
scaturiginous country through which
| it passed. LOBBY, indeed, would bt
| the sentences framed\ from such /
| languagei Its meracious character
| would be small gain weighed agains
| the loss Of expression involved. Sncf
a language would be morbose from tbs
beginning and soon die. In fact i
| would be at all times mere mactatiof
of language to refuse words from
other languages. One channel through
| which We are perstringed to accep
new words is that opened ont by new
discoveries demanding technica
names for things not hitherto known