I'd hate to ever see that kind of craziness rub off onto objects. Slang just makes people more stupid, that's all, and stupidity eventually makes them crazy. It hangs between humanity and the real world like a. When a person says a movie is 'neat,' does he mean that it's funny or tragic or thrilling or romantic, does he mean that the cinematography is beautiful, the acting heartfelt, the script intelligent, the direction deft, or the leading lady has cleavage to die for? Slang possesses an economy, an immediacy that's attractive, all right, but it devalues experience by standardizing and fuzzing it. You can wring meanings out of it by the bucketful-and never know which one is right. When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. When it's generically and inappropriately applied, though, as it is in the slang aspect, it only obscures the true nature of the thing or feeling that it's supposed to be representing. They may take our lives, but theyll never take our freedom. It's a valuable tool for describing the appearance of a room, a hairdo, or a manuscript. 'The word neat, for example, has precise connotations.

The manner in which the other were regarding him/her made Can O' Beans feel compelled to continue. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the words that would accurately describe an emotion or a situation, it lowers their reality orientations, pushes them farther from shore, out onto the foggy waters of alienation and confusion.' The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. “Well,' said Can o' Beans, a bit hesitantly,' imprecise speech is one of the major causes of mental illness in human beings.'

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