[Buttons12]

May as well be speaking a different language to these last two generations. They might not even be able to decipher those two paragraphs with two semesters of college dedicated to just those paragraphs. It is a real problem for those who like to write with elegance and intelligence.

Yes, this is a problem. Of conscience. For some people! Others don't write for these past two generations or for two-semester folk. If you want to write with elegance and intelligence, never mind the village idiots now in the majority.

A writing coach I otherwise respect, advises to use only straightforward, simple English. Might as well speak in grunts, clicks and whistles, and write nothing.

My readership probably went extinct in the 1920's, I can't help that. Sum ergo scribo!

[Openurmind]

Yeah, it is pretty bad when you have to dumb down for over half the market.