18 Months to Slow the Spread

I love grammar and I love languages, but I'm not a word snob. If it's not understandable to an 8th grader (or at least an 8th grader from the 1970's - I don't know that today's 8th grader could comprehend what a 4th grader knew a hundred years ago...), it's not well-explained. I am usually non-discriminatory when it comes to usage, as well. I find William F. Buckley, Jr's cadence and vocabulary beautiful and Snoop Dog's interesting. I say this to prove the point that my lexicon is egalitarian.

I would like for you to consider, however, the idea of word banning. We've been tortured since January, 2020 with that horrible acronym for the most likely engineered, less deadly than other strains, boogeyman iteration of the flu. I suggest we all refuse to refer to it as COVID and instead call it what it is - WuFlu.

Also on my radar: can we please stop discussing seriously such nebulous, meaningless terms as "sustainable," "awareness" and "access?" Don't talk to me about sustainable clothing unless it's made of titanium. Don't petition me for a donation for your "awareness" crusade against your latest hobgoblin; that accomplishes precisely nothing except adding to your misbegotten sense of moral superiority . And for crying out loud, quit talking about "access" to something as being the same as having the benefit of it. Only an over-educated idiot with no understanding of language would toss around those words as synonymous.