Re ‘wastrels’.
It does a body good to see the English language in all its descriptive glory is not dead!
I’ve often told my wife of 40 years (a Czech by birth) that the English language has to ability to describe multiple situations in so many contexts and manners it is incredible. She finally realized this when we both sat down one night and pondered about the uses and meanings of so many variations of one of the most vulgar epithets that starts with “F”.
In my opinion, it is the only language on this planet that allows one to insult someone in 40 different ways and not give a clue to the unenlightened as to the meaning.
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Thanks for the positive reinforcement.
My opinion is that a person’s vocabulary can never be too large, especially when insulting large groups of people over the internet for their torpid, dissipated and squandered lives.