Luke's Working Notes

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On killing words (and trying to keep them alive)

ā€œThe greatest cause of verbicide is the fact that most people are obviously far more anxious to express their approval and disapproval of things than to describe them. Hence the tendency of words to become… useless synonyms for good or for bad.ā€ - C.S. Lewis (Studies in Words)