The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-08-19

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There are no synonyms.-
In the richness of the English
language there IL always some orA
word that expresses given idS
more nearly than any other. Its
about one time in "A thousand we
grope, and find, that very one
No people are better fitted to ex.
press themselves clearly and Ade.
quatcly than we. There are more
than 100000 words in our dicton.
airy, and, where We have liked
words belonging to another, we
have appropriated them unto cur.
selves.
From the Latin we derived such
words as orator, quorum. vim. and
species. From the Anglo-SaNon We
came by wanton, ridge and shield.
Bodily, from the French, We took
epaulette, lingerie, debutante and
valet; with yacht from the Dutch,
soprano from the Italians; and kin
dergarten from the Germans.
Shakespeare, we learn, made use
of 1900 words. and Milton em-
ployed 5000, but in spite OF the
subjects that have como to us since
their limited day, when automobiles,
airplanes and normally" belonged
to the great unknown, students on
the matter inform US that the av-
erage speaker now makes use OF
but a paltry 1000.
In recent woman's Journal
Elizabeth Jordan lets us in on some
of the problems of ''The Writing
game" She stresses the necessity
OF a vocabulary OF wide range. She
avows that IL Ia one problem that
ever remains a problem even 10 1u.
thors who have arrived" william
j. Lock once confided t. Gertrude
Atherton that he spent all his Sun
days looking up new words In the
dictionary. Mrs. Atherton was So
impressed that thereafter she SPENT
her Sundays in the same fashion
Elizabeth Jordan. hearing it. sal
she. too. was impressed, but she tooI.'
n shorter and more pleasing cut 20
the same end, and spent her SUNDAYS
reading what the other two had
written, and made notes of all their
new words. She said she ALWAYS
used a new word as soon az possible
after running acros It.
In all phases OF literature there Is
thought spent on the right word
even the right name. Do not doubt
that Maggie Tulliver" was chosen,
rustic maiden, and Clara Middle
ton and Elizabeth Bennett were
known TO suit the middle-class hero
Inc. Dickens was ever punCtillous
and successful. in finding character
istic or suggestive names for his
Characters
As conversatiunalists we are too
vague. Something like what we
mean Is counted to be Just as good
M what we actually do mean Tho
first thing is to know ourselves what
we want to say, then pick our words
to compel the hearer TO get no other
thought. Two words are nearly al
ways better than three-but lack
ing the ones that actually express
our thought. we employ whole sem
tences IN an effort to satisfy our
selves that another gets clearly what
we have IN mind. We are wOrdy
and ofttimes ttresome.
Describing Bacon's Language, Ben
Jonson said:
mo man ever spoke more raat'yS
more pressly, more weighNiN or SUI
fered less emptiness, less idlenrss N
what he uttered. HI hearers could
not cough or look aside without loss
He commanded when no spoke, ana
i'Nh 'llo JhNN'o oilblS VI IA't~' ~
his discretion"
II IL ono's immediate friends 0u"9
set" more than one's readirr NAY
fixes the bounds. II is often r''on
that n pupil from an flliteratc family
whose language tests are pcrfn' AZ
school, mutilates the kings Eur.lsh
when outside the classroom the
talk of any one neiRhh0rh0od uA,.
rows 10 suit the thlnncst mind u
is only by studied effort ana tho o'd'
tivation OF those who venture ae'
yond the 9.000-word limit, th.' ne
can hope to progress.
let anyone who wants O. see
himself grow" admonishcs George
Herbert Palmer, 'rcsolVc 10 a.'W
two new words each weok-i' "' a
not be long before the endless 1nk
enchanting variety of the world WV
begin 20 reflect Itself IN his spec y
and In his mind as well. \ worn
used three times slips off the tonsus,
with entire naturalness. Then 'L
ours forever. and with II s'w'
phase of life which had been l'.A'
ing hitherto"