The recent address at a function by one of our politicians has left a buzz around the nation and many have voiced their disapproval, stating it as a national embarrassment.
In total honesty, I’m afraid I have to object. It isn’t entirely necessary for a politician or anyone else for that matter to have a perfect command of the global language to be successful. There are numerous prominent personalities all around the world who are not renowned for their English speaking ability.
Therefore, I would rather direct my mockery or hold accountable the well learned person who prepared that particular speech. Everyone knows that ‘The Politician’ in question is rather notorious for his English, but despite this the writer decided to flaunt his skills, completely ignoring for whom he was writing it for, and used up all the large words he could find in a thesaurus.
“Do not use big words where diminutive ones would suffice”.
The writer would do well to learn the wisdom behind this statement.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment