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“This is going too far.”

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This is going too far.

 

It is about language policing.

— Roger W. Smith

This entry was posted in language in the abstract as it pertains to writing, political correctness (PC) and tagged Roger Smith, Roger W. Smith, The language police are at it again. They are ignorant fanatical ideologies whose incursions on our everyday speech and the language used in journalism and writing amount to an assault on the language, Think of words like cold fish clock watcher and dead drop which are not on their prohibited list.. Our language is full of idioms slang and clichés that are pungent and descriptive and just plain fun on January 23, 2022 by Roger W. Smith.

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