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Big Words

It is no big thing, really, but I am starting to notice an annoying thing about our modern usages of the English language. No, I don't mean swearing; I'm not condoning it, but we all need to vent from time to time. don't we?

No, I am referring to the over-the-top, officious gobbledy goop that is taking over the airways.
News casters do it, so do many so-called experts, politicians and scholarly types.

It is no longer acceptable to use "plainspeak".

A school, for example is an educational institution, or a colleagiate establishment.
Teachers are referred to as Members of the Scholastic proffession
Good Students have become Exemplary achievers, adept at Scholastic endeavours.
Lawyers have suddenly become Purveyors of the legal establishment or Solicitorial representatives.
Doctors are now Medical practishioners

I admire proper word usage, even if I don't always speak and write it (LOL!!) Oh, sure, they are in the dictionary, but do we really need those million dollar words thrown in our face so much? Who are they trying to impress anyway?


Just once I'd like to hear phrases like;
" School teachers admire good students, who go on to become Lawyers and Doctors."
we are more likely to hear something like this:

"Members of the institutional Scholastic society have an extreme afffinity towards those exemplary scholastic achievers, so adept in their studies that they endeavour to procure meaningful status with legal,solicitorial and/or Medicinal implementational establishments."

Yikes!!!