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r SECTION 1 - PAGE 18 - PLAINDEALER-TUESDA Y, DECEMBER 23, IOT5 Pastor Voices Thoughts On English Language (by Father William 0. Hanner, rector emeritus of Holy Comforter church, Episcopal, Kenilworth) In the magazine, Newsweek, for Dec. 8, the lead article is entitled, "Why Johnny can't write." What the magazine refers to is not John's pen­ manship but his inability to express himself on paper in the English language. By chance my most regular correspondent worte me within the past week on the sad state of our diction and usage. I respect his opinion. He is Craig Atkinson. We visit the Atkinsons each winter. I was their "best man". He and I roomed next to each other at Northwestern university and together we made a three month trip to Europe in '28. He says, "I have been irritated with the deterioration of the English language as used in the United States. A case in point is the word "route". It is correctly pronounced "root", the ignorant began to say "rout" and now the dictionary allows both usages on the philosophy that errors become part of the living language and are no longer errors." Hov.- correct Mr. A. is. I would even change his word ' ' p h i l o s o p h y ' ' t o "rationalization". He also calls my attention to "adult". The accent should be on the second syllable but now you hear people accenting the first. Back to Mr. Atkinson again, "Execrable practice of turning nouns into verbs. A chairman used to preside as chairman. Now he chairs." I wish he could be quoted in full. There is not space. A n o t h e r r e g u l a r correspondent, Mrs. Harry Denham of Miami, who teaches English in the Miami schools, (her husband was one of my vestrymen at St. Stephan's, Miami) has discussed the same topic with me. Her problem is magnified by the word usage of Cubans coming to Miami during Castro's days. It is hard for them to take up a new language and many wish to turn South Florida into a little Cuba.(That last comment is my own.) If people wish to live here, let them learn our language. It is a noble vehicle of expression, magnified by the examples of Shakespeare, Churchill and Lincoln and countless others, to say nothing of the King James version of the Bible, the language of the prayers of the English church. Great, good and beautiful language is as much a part of art as painting, needlework music, land­ scaping or any other Arts. Why has our language deteriorated? For one things the Black Box has done us terrible harm. Entertainers, advertizers, commentators use poor English and often (the "t" IS SILENT, say offen, not of- Ten) express themselves in poor and ungrammatical language. A child (or even an adult) picks up the poor speech, uses it and the language is impoverished. Some ad­ vertising English is worse than some of the products ad­ vertized. Our children are not drilled in correct speech and writing is hard work.Ithastobe done and redone, before it flows smoothly, evenly and expresses your thought. Mr. A. again, "I remember an employment agency that wrote, 'Give five personal references, one of which would preferrably be a clergyman. What that says is, search around till you find a reference who is not a clergyman but who wishes he were one; a poor frustrated fellow whose great sorrow is not being a clergyman. To find such a reference is not easy to »~do. What is meant of course is, 'we prefer one reference to be a clergyman'. Why not say so?" Ah yes! What some business letters with their unintelligible expressions are trying to say could be said so much easier. And the Armed Forces; if you want to see jargon at its pristine best, consult military orders and reports. At An­ napolis we had one entire term of English devoted to written expression of oneself. 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