[lit-ideas] 1874 clarity
- From: Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:56:30 -0600
From this week's World Wide Words:
<<The earliest unearthed so far is in The Pennsylvania School Journal
of 1874. It is surely older still. This version is from early in its
life:
Let your conversation possess a clarified conciseness,
compacted comprehensibleness, coalescent consistency, and
a concatenated cogency. Eschew all conglomerations of
flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement, and asinine
affectations. Let your extemporaneous descantings and
unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility, without
rhodomontade or thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all
polysyllabical profundity, pompous prolixity, and
ventriloquial vapidity. Shun double-entendre and prurient
jocosity, whether obscure or apparent. In other words,
speak truthfully, naturally, clearly, purely, but do not
use large words.
[Notes and Queries, 11 Feb. 1893.]>>
Julie Krueger
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